Reviews for Philip Guston's Poor Richard

The average rating for Philip Guston's Poor Richard based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-20 00:00:00 Russell Yates Another American comics artifact. Art and Seth also presented Poor Richard as part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's exhibit Krazy! The Delirious World Of Anime + Comics + Video Games. This is a weird one - this book came out of a month of prodigious illustration by Guston, who had been a well-known New York abstract artist. He had a show that was lambasted and retreated to Woodstock, where he befriended Phillip Roth. These drawings came out of dinner conversations about Richard Nixon and pre-dated his impeachment by three years. Richard Nixon's face is a dick-and-balls. It's pretty great.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-05 00:00:00 Melissa Garrett For much of his career, Philip Guston was known as an abstract artist. Later, he began to include cartoon-like figures and objects in his works. In 1971, he did a series of drawings of Richard Nixon and company (Agnew, Kissinger, & Mitchell). The entire series of drawings is included in this book. Guston captures Nixon and his cohorts perfectly and nails them to the wall. New exhibition with additional artwork: