Art Book Wishlist, January 2010

Phillip Guston: Paintings 1947-1979
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Contributions by Michael Auping, Martin Hentschel, Christoph Schreier.
I've always admired and adored the work of Phillip Guston, but I still don't have a book! Unfortunately, according to D.A.P. this book is out of print.






A good alternative to the monograph would be this catalogue:
Phillip Guston Retrospective
Thames & Hudson, 2006Text by Michael Auping










I've been waiting for a good David Park monograph, and lo and behold, here it is finally:


David Park, Painter - Nothing Held Back
Helen Bigelow
Published by Hudson Hills Press, September 2009

"David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back" chronicles the brief but remarkably prolific career of American painter David Park. In his 49 years, he became an integral part of the San Francisco Bay art community in the early 1930s, and is counted as one of the immensely gifted artists who were part of the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement in its nascent beginnings in the 1950s. Park, who was drawing in perspective by the time he was five years old, began his professional career before the age of twenty, apprenticing together with sculptor Gordon Newell for sculptor Ralph Stackpole's monumental columns that were being erected in front of the Pacific Stock Exchange in California. His work was widely exhibited during his lifetime at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the California Legion of Honor. In addition, Park was a faculty member of the San Francisco Art Institute and later the University of California, Berkeley. Together with the 100 paintings featured, this monograph shows an artist who possessed a life-long passion for painting.