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An intimate account of a decade in the life of poet and painter Musa McKim and her husband Philip Guston, told through McKim’s journal entries and poems. Bringing together Musa McKim’s journals and poetry, Life with P.: Journals, 1966–1976 draws an intimate and candid portrait of McKim’s life as a writer and her marriage to the esteemed painter Philip Guston. The book spans a critical decade in the couple’s marriage as well as a period of profound change and productivity in Guston’s artistic practice that saw the creation of some of his most iconic late works. McKim’s writings capture daily life at their home and studio in Woodstock, trips to New York City, travels abroad to Mexico and Italy, and time spent at various artist residencies. A rich collection of artworks and archival images documents the couple’s domestic and social lives and the fellow artists and writers who made up their world. Alongside her introduction, notes by their daughter Musa Mayer provide valuable context to her mother’s writings. Complementing Mayer’s own celebrated memoir Night Studio (1988), Life with P. is an extraordinary window into McKim’s singular experience of the world.

Subodh Gupta (born 1964) agglomerates everyday Indian household objects such as cooking utensils into monumental entities such as mushroom clouds or skulls, often sabotaging the fiction of intrinsic value through witty inversion and conjunction. Among the fruits of his methods are sculptural works such as bronze mangos, Hindu-swastika ceiling fans and worn-out sandals placed alongside three-dimensional Mona Lisas. Gupta's mostly found materials, which range in texture from aluminum, bronze and stainless steel to fiberglass and neon, identify themselves as Indian in origin, but are recomposed into sculptural meanings accessible to all nationalities (one implication of the title's "common man"). This monograph is published on the occasion of Gupta's first solo exhibition in London; alongside full-color reproductions, it includes an interview between Gupta and Hans Ulrich Obrist and an essay on the artist's work by Martin Herbert.

From prose and presentations to reflections and conversations, this reader offers unprecendented access into nearly fifty years of Phyllida Barlow's thoughts on art, teaching, drawing and more.Alongside her career as an artist, Phyllida Barlow has written, taught, lectured, and been the subject of numerous interviews. This book brings together fifty texts by Barlow - a diverse array of prose, presentations, reflections on artists, and conversations with art-world luminaries, critics, and fellow artists. Edited by Sara Harrison, this reader gives access to nearly fifty years of Barlow's thoughts on art, making, teaching, drawing, and other artists.