Welcome to the third episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Andrea and Matt watch A Life Lived, a documentary about Philip Guston as he installed a retrospective exhibition in San Franscisco in 1980, and read a lecture Guston delivered on one of his favourite painters, Piero Della Francesca, also around that time. It’s a total love in. Who doesn’t love Guston?
Download a PDF of the essay below, and see a link to the documentary on Kanopy (if you have access)
Guston, Philip. ‘On Piero Della Francesca’. In Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations, edited by Clark Coolidge. University of California Press, 1980. Download PDF.
Blackwood, Michael, dir. Philip Guston: A Life Lived. 1980. https://www.kanopy.com/en/arts/watch/video/100709.