: August 28, 2012

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Making Sense of Philip Guston

MAP Speakers Series with David Kaufmann

Saturday, October 6: 1pm



Maryland Art Place is pleased to present David Kaufmann, the final  
lecture of the year in MAP’s 2012 Speakers’ Series. David Kaufmann,  
Professor of English at George Mason University, is most recently the  
author of Telling Stories: The Late Works of Philip Guston (U of  
California P, 2010).

About the Lecture: In 1962 Philip Guston was the first person to be  
given a one-man show at the Guggenheim Museum. At that time he was one  
of the most important Abstract Expressionists in America. By 1970, he  
turned his back on abstraction and the whole New York art world,  
spending the last ten years of his life blazing out enormous,  
sometimes ferocious, often bleakly witty figurative canvases.  By the  
time of his death in 1980, critics called him the most important  
painter of that decade. David Kaufmann will describe the logic of  
Guston’s career, explaining why his reversals make sense, and why  
Guston remains a painter of crucial urgency.

The 2012 Maryland Art Place Speakers’ Series launched a new program  
consisting of a small group of lectures given by distinguished  
critics, artists, and historians on topics related to contemporary and  
modern art.

All Speakers Series events are free and open to the public. Space is  
limited, to attend please RSVP to sofia@mdartplace.org.

The Speakers’ Series is sponsored by The Robert Lehman Foundation.



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Sofia Rutka
Program Manager
Maryland Art Place
8 Market Place, Suite 100
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
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(410) 962-8565
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