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Philip Guston's "Poor Richard" (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Philip Guston's "Poor Richard" (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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In 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist
Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of
Richard Nixon titled Philip Guston's Poor Richard. Produced two
years before Watergate and three years before Nixon's resignation,
these provocative, searing condemnations of a corrupt head of state
are remarkable, prescient political satire. The drawings mock
Nixon's physical attributes--his nose is rendered as an enlarged
phallus throughout-as well as his notoriously dubious, shifty
character. Debra Bricker Balken's book is the first book--length
publication of these drawings.
A visual narrative of Nixon's life, the drawings trace Nixon from
his childhood, through his ascent to power, to his years in the
White House. They incorporate Henry Kissinger (a pair of glasses),
Spiro Agnew (a cone-head), and John Mitchell (a dolt smoking a
pipe). They depict Nixon and his cohorts in China, plotting
strategy in Key Biscayne, and shamelessly pandering to African
Americans, hippies, and elderly tourists.
As Balken discusses in her accompanying essay, these drawings also
reflect a dramatic transformation in Guston's work. In response to
social unrest and the Vietnam War, he began to question the
viability of a private art given to self-expression. His betrayal
of aesthetic abstraction in favor of imagery imbued with personal
and political meaning largely engendered the renewal of figuration
in painting in America in the 1970s. These drawings not only
represent one of the few instances of an artist in the late
twentieth century engaging caricature in his work, they are also a
witty, acerbic take on a corrupt figure and a scandalous political
regime.
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