| City Limits | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Philip Guston |
| Year | 1969 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 195.6 cm × 262.2 cm (6 ft 5 in × 8 ft 7.25 in) |
| Location | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
City Limits is a 1969 painting by Phillip Guston, part of his “hoods” series of representational works. These paintings depicted cartoonish versions of Klansmen engaged in various mundane activities. While other works in this series (i.e. The Studio) featured the artist himself under the guise of a KKK member, City Limits provides a more straightforward depiction. The child-like presentation has been described as enabling “a simple account of the simple-mindedness of violence.” It is influenced by his early work with Mexican Muralists and was part of his polarizing abandonment of Abstract Expressionism as a genre at his 1970 Marlborough Gallery exhibition. It is featured in Philip Guston Now, a traveling retrospective that generated controversy when it was postponed in 2020.
References
- Meyer, Lily (2022-05-24). "Don't Look Away From Philip Guston's Cartoonish Paintings of Klansmen". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- "Philip Guston. City Limits. 1969 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- Emelife, Aindrea (2020-09-28). "Philip Guston's KKK images force us to stare evil in the face – we need art like this". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- Schwabsky, Barry (2022-07-28). "Philip Guston's Philosophy of Doubt". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- Greenberger, Alex (2020-09-30). "Philip Guston's KKK Paintings: Why an Abstract Painter Returned to Figuration to Confront Racism". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- Holland, Oscar (2020-10-01). "Artists slam decision to postpone exhibition of Philip Guston's KKK paintings". CNN. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
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