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Review: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, And Conversations

By WILLIAM CORBETT | January 7, 2011

Exasperating, yes. Exhilarating, absolutely! Of course Guston repeats himself, but he never sounds canned, and neither does he lay down the law, except to declare in response to the painter Ad Reinhardt, "The artist should not want to be right."

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