Review combines three works of criticism with a gallery of beautiful color plates showing the course of Guston’s work from 1947-79. -- Book News, Inc., February 2001 Product Description Focusing on Philip Guston's mature production in abstraction and his later figuration, this book argues for Guston as a consistent artist whose generic shift in the late 60s, from Monet-like abstract hatchings to the cartoonish forms of his final decade and a half, reminded artists everywhere that courage is what it's all about. Here, well-known experts on Philip Guston's oeuvre such as Michael Auping and Christoph Schreier discuss the scope of Guston's sizeable body of work. About the Author Philip Guston (1913-1980) was born in Montreal. Moving to the U.S. in 1919, he became friends with Jackson Pollock at Los Angeles Manual Arts High School, and later studied at the Otis Arts Institute in Los Angeles. His paintings are displayed in numerous international museums, and has had museum retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.