Philip Guston's Poor Richard
104 pages, 73 color plates 10-7/8 x 8-1/2
©
2001
Cloth $53.00
ISBN: 9780226036212
Published October 2001
Paper $30.00
ISBN: 9780226036229
Published May 2003
In 1971, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created this series of caricatures of Richard Nixon, now available for the first time in book form. Produced two years before Watergate and three years before Nixon's resignation, these provocative, searing condemnations of a corrupt head of state are both a remarkable, prescient political satire and an aesthetic landmark-one of few instances of an artist in the late twentieth century engaging caricature in his work.
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