Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
The Struggle Against Terrorism
Date
1935
Medium
Fresco
Dimensions
480 x 318 in.1219.2 x 807.7 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left side: PHILIP GOLDSTEIN/ REUBEN KADISH/ J.H. LANGSNER -- 1935
Catalogue No.
P35.001
Note
created by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish, with assistance by Jules Langsner.
In the February 10, 1935 issue of the Los Angeles Times, the mural was referred to as The Struggle Against Terrorism. It has also been referred to as The Struggle Against War and Fascism, The Struggle Against War and Terror or The Inquisition
Provenance
Museo Regional Michoacano, Morelia, Mexico
Exhibitions
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston", November 08, 2024 - March 30, 2025
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, "Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston", October 16, 2025 - March 01, 2026
Bibliography
Los Angeles Times. "Fragment of 'Struggle' Fresco." February 10, 1935, section Part II, p. 10, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural)
Molina, Benjamin. "El Fresco de Kadish y Goldstein en el Museo Michoacano. Atalaya (Morelia). February 6, 1935, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Molina, Benjamin. "El Fresco deKadish y Goldstein en el Museo Michoacano." Atalaya (Morelia), March 10, 1935, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Time. "On a Mexican Wall." April 1, 1935, pp. 46, 48, illus. in b&w p. 48 and mentioned in text pp. 46 and 48
Millier, Arthur. "Brush Strokes: Time Magazine Errs." Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1935, section Part II, p. 9, not illus.
Dungan, H.L. "Artists of America Are Given Chance to Show their Wares." Oakland Tribune, June 23, 1935, p. S-7, mentioned in text, not illus.
Los Angeles Times. "Art Exhibitions Reviewed." March 8, 1936, p. C9, mentioned in text, not illus.
Richard, Paul. "The Gusto of Guston: The Artist's Compelling Last Pictures at the Phillips." Washington Post, April 9, 1981, pp. D1, D13, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 60 as part of Chronology, not illus.
Greene, Alison de Lima. "The Artist as Performer: Philip Guston's Early Work." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 55–61, mentioned in text p. 56, not illus., listed as "The Struggle Against Terrorism"
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, illus. in b&w p. 15, no. 2 (of artists standing in front of mural), Robert Storr essay
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, mentioned in text p. 43, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "Laughing in the Dark." Independent Magazine, February 23, 1991, pp. 48–52, mentioned in text p. 52, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Mercado, Estela Alcántara. "La ascensión del fascismo, tema de los murales de Guston, Kadish y Noguchi." Gaceta UNAM (Mexico City), November 17, 1994, p. 31, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Realism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, illus. in b&w no. 144 p. 145 and mentioned in text p. 143 (unpaginated)
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, mentioned in text p. 397, not illus.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. Paper Museum: Writing on Painting, Mostly. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996, mentioned in text p. 202, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Art; The Shock of the Old; a Fading Mural Is Revealed as a Philip Guston, and with Careful Work, Regains Its Former Brilliance." Los Angeles Times, June 7, 1998, section Calendar, pp. 3, 90, 92, mentioned in text p. 90, not illus.
Gibson, Michael. "Philip Guston: A Rage to Paint." International Herald Tribune, September 30–October 1, 2000, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, illus. in b&w no. 1
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 134, not illus.
Sewell, Brian. "What a waste of a little bit of talent." Evening Standard (London), January 23, 2004, section The Arts, pp. 32-33, mentioned in text p. 32, not illus.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "Philip Guston at the Royal Academy." Sunday Telegraph (London), January 25, 2004, mentioned in text
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in b&w and in detail
Campbell, Peter. "Philip Guston fouls the nest." London Review of Books, February 5, 2004. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lopez, Eugenio Mercado. "La inquisicion, Un mural del Museo Regional Michoacano de Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), section Acento, May 12, 2004, pp. 2-5, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) p. 2 and details illus. in b&w pp. 3, 4 and 5
Aguilar, Claudia. "Buscan revalorar La Inquisición." Cambio de Michoacan, May 12, 2004, p. 26, detail illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Montejano, Yolanda. "Llegan norteamericanos para recuperar mural." Provincia El Diario Grande de Michoacán, May 12, 2004, section A, p. 9, detail illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Castillo, Argelia. "Guston y Kadish en el Museo Regional Michoacano." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), section Acento, March 16, 2005, pp. 8–10, called "The Struggle Against War and Fascism" in article
Magana, Magdiel Torres. "Tiene valor incalculanble mural De la Inquisicion." Provincia (Morelia), March 19, 2005, section Cultura, p. 10, illus. in b&w p. 10 of mural in need of restoration, also illus. in color p. 1 as "Llamado De la Inquisicion"
Olivo, Demetrio. "El Mural 'La Santa Inquisicion: Tesoro redescubierto." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), March 20, 2005, pp. 20A, 21A, illus. in b&w p. 20A of mural in need of restoration
Melandri, Lisa, and Michael R. Taylor. Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in b&w Fig. 8
Landau, Ellen G. "Double Consciousness in Mexico: How Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish Painted a Morelian Mural." American Art 21, no. 1 (2007): pp. 74–97, illus. in b&w photo of mural p. 75, called "The Struggle against Terrorism", also color detail of mural in its current state illus on p. 88, and "Lamentation" panel of mural illus. in b&w on p. 89, and panel from mural illus. in b&w p. 90
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, illus. in b&w p. 8
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in b&w p. 27 and mentioned in text p. 26
Schreier, Christoph, Poul Erik Tøjner, Isabel Dervaux, and Michael Semff. Philip Guston: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus. (Michael Semff essay)
McKenzie, Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980". In Studio International Yearbook. New York: The Studio Trust, 2007, pp. 60-67, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Esplund, Lance. "Guston Times Two: The Morgan's Philip Guston Retrospective Presents an Artist at His Peaks and Valleys, Lance Esplund Writes." New York Sun, May 1, 2008, p. 13, mentioned in text p. 13, not illus.
Boime, Al. "Breaking Open the Wall: The Morelia Mural of Guston, Kadish and Langsner." Burlington Magazine, July 2008, Fig. 14 illus. in color p. 453, Fig. 18 illus. in b&w p. 455 and detail illus in color Fig. 21 p. 457
Landau, Ellen G. Mexico and American Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 21, p. 35 and mentioned in text pp. vii, ix, x, 34-59
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 138 (English)/139 (German), not illus.
Mexico: A Revolution in Art 1910 - 1940. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2013, Fig. 57 detail illus. in color p. 147 and mentioned in text pp. 146-148, 171 and 195. Also, photograph of artists standing in front of mural illus. in b&w p. 146
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text pp. 8-9, 23, 87, and 142, not illus.
Icônes américaines—Chefs-d'œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, illus. in b&w photo of Guston and Kadish in front of mural, Fig. 1
Cole, Thomas B. "The Porch Philip Guston." JAMA, July 12, 2016, mentioned in text p. 132 as "The Struggle Against Terror," not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 14, illus. in b&w p. 31 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 30
La peinture Américaine des années 1930: The Age of Anxiety. Exh. cat. Paris: Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, 2016, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016, mentioned in text p. 135, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in b&w p. 30 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 29
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue no. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. guide. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018, illus. in b&w p. 9 and mentioned in text p. 8
Seo, Yoo Byung. "My God, Did I Do That?" Heren, July 2018, pp. 224-229, mentioned in text p. 226, not illus.
Lopez, Eugenio Mercado. "El terror: contexto y motivo del mural de Guston y Kadish en el Museo Michoacano." In Arquitectura y Murales en Michoacán Génesis de una iconografía para la identidad regional, 71-96. Morelia: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, 2018, image 1, central panel illus. in b&w p. 77; image 2, top left panel illus. in b&w p. 78; image 3, bottom left panel illus. in b&w p. 78; image 8, detail illus. in b&w p. 89; image 10, detail bottom left panel illus. in b&w p. 90; image 12, bottom left panel illus. in b&w p. 91; image 14 and 15, details top right illus. in b&w p. 92; image 16, of artists standing in front of mural illus. in b&w p. 94
Robinson, Andy. "El mural prohibido de Philip Guston." La Vanguardia (Barcelona), January 27, 2019. Online, detail illus. in color and illus. in b&w with artists standing in front
Teicholz, Tom. "Philip Guston's Year of Magical Resilience." Forbes, September 27, 2019. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Stromberg, Matt. "Learn More About Philip Guston's Only Surviving Mural in California." Hyperallergic, November 26, 2019. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Sierra, Sonia. "Mujeres y hombres de EU que crearon murales bajo el influjo de mexicanos." El Universal, February 14, 2020. Online, illus. in color maquette of the mural
Selvin, Claire. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." ARTnews, July 22, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Trang Ps. "Danh họa Philip Guston: Từ lối vẽ hình tượng đến trừu tượng và ngược lại." Luxio (Ho Chi Minh City), August 7, 2020. Online, illus. in b&w with artists standing in front and mentioned in text
Giuliano, Charles. "Philip Guston Now to Not Now: What He Meant to Boston Artists." Berkshire Fine Arts, September 26, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion." The New York Times, October 2, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Still Provokes a Furor." The New York Times, October 3, 2020, p. C5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Elliott, David. "The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston." Border Crossings, November 2020, pp. 48-55, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
Luke, Ben. "Philip Guston show: 2022 opening is welcome news by confusion still remains." Art Newspaper (London), November 6, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Miranda, Carolina A. "Column: The art show of 2020 and how it unearthed the Mexican influences in American art." Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in b&w p. 11, detail illus. in b&w p. 184 and mentioned in text pp. 10, 183-184 and 223
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in b&w p. 10 and mentioned in text p. 11
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 5 illus. in b&w p. 18, illus. in b&w p. 283 as part of a magazine clipping and mentioned in text p. 16
Lucie-Smith, Edward. World of Art: Movements in Art Since 1945. 4th ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020, mentioned in text p. 184, not illus.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020., plate 106 detail illus. in color p. 159 and mentioned in text pp. 25-26 and 177
Nadel, Dan. "Now You See Me." Artforum, January/February 2021, pp. 106-110, illus. in b&w p. 106 and mentioned in text p. 108
Tallman, Susan. "Philip Guston's Discomfort Zone: How is it that the artist, dead these forty years, is still pushing our buttons?" New York Review of Books, January 14, 2021, pp. 12-15, mentioned in text p. 13, not illus.
Harris, Gareth. "Q&A: Philip Guston's daughter Musa Mayer on her new book and the uproar surrounding the artist's postponed show." Art Newspaper (London), February 4, 2021. Online, mentioned in text as "The Inquisition", not illus.
Frasco, Elizabeth. "An American Mural in Morelia, Mexico." Academia Letters, April 2022, detail illus. in color Fig. 1 and mentioned in text
Whyte, Murray. "The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning -- here's the result." Boston Globe, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Samudzi, Zoé. "Under the Hood." Jewish Currents, November 16, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
González, Rosa Boshier. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, December 2022-January 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
González, Rosa Boshier. "Philip Guston." Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2022/23, pp. 57-58, mentioned in text p. 57, not illus.
Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, mentioned in text p. 18, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Tate Modern to present a landmark exhibition of Philip Guston this October." FAD Magazine, August 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Chow, Vivienne. "15 Must-See Shows This Fall in Europe, From a Major Survey of Marina Abramović to a Face Off Between Edvard Munch and Goya: Philip Guston" artnet News, September 14, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?' Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK." Guardian, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Harris, Gareth. "Postponed Philip Guston survey finally opens at Tate Modern." Art Newspaper, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Luke, Ben. "Philip Guston at Tate Modern review: riven with anger, engorged with love, haunted by suffering." Evening Standard (London), October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Florian, Federico. "Philip Guston arriva alla Tate Modern." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?'" Guardian, October 4, 2023, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kent, Sarah. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review - a compelling look at an artist who derided the KKK: How to appear daft while addressing the dark side." Arts Desk, October 5, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Thalberg, Lisbeth. "Philip Guston. Tate Modern. London." Martin Cid Magazine, October 7, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Januszczak, Waldemar. "Philip Guston: forget the Ku Klux Klan row, this show is unmissable." Times (London), October 8, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art Daily. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years on view at Tate Modern." October 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years opens at Tate Modern." FAD Magazine, October 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Carolin, Clare. "Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'" The Conversation, October 10, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lloyd, Joe. "Philip Guston: This straight-laced, work-focused retrospective affirms Philip Guston's place as one of the 20th century's finest painters." Studio International, October 19, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cohen, Alexander. "The Jewish artist who perfectly captured the turbulent world he was witnessing." Jewish Chronicle, October 19, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston: This long-delayed restrospective is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of a 50-year career." Art Newspaper, November 2023, p. 62, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★." Art Newspaper, November 2, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Woolf, Jan. "The bigot in the hood." Morning Star (London), November 16, 2023. Online, detail illus. in color
Nelson, Saul. "Insomniac Visions." Sidecar (NLR blog), November 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lavrador, Judicaël. "L'art taillé dans le vif de Philip Guston." Beaux Arts Magazine, December 2023, pp. 66-73, mentioned in text p. 72, not illus.
Barber, Tiffany E. and Joan Choi. "White Hoods, White Masks." Tate Etc., Issue 60, Winter 2023, pp. 78-83, detail illus. in b&w p. 78
Holman, Matthew. "Guston: antirazzista e contro la guerra, condanna i criminali umanizzandoli." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, December 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 14, illus. in b&w p. 31 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 30
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in b&w no. 12 (unpaginated) and illus. in color no. 14 (unpaginated)
Kellaway, Dave. "Philip Guston (1913-1980) Bearing Witness to Brutality and Injustice." Anti-Capitalist Resistance, February 3, 2024. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dunbar, Max. "The Daily Struggle: Philip Guston and American Art in the 1930s." PhD diss. Washington University in St. Louis, 2024, illus. in b&w Fig. 2.4 p. 88 and details illus. in b&w Fig. 2.5 p. 89 and Fig. 2.6 p. 90. Also mentioned in text pp. 16, 82, 87, 91-94, 98 and 100
Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024, illus. in b&w p. 21 and mentioned in text p. 18
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) no. 28 p. 214 and mentioned in text p. 50
Muralismo en Michoacán. Continuidades y tipologías de un movimiento artístico. Michoacán: Cuarta República, Editorial de Michoacán, 2024, illus. in color p. 123, details illus. in color pp. 124 and 125 and mentioned in text p. 122
Scott, Chadd. "Philip Guston mural, 'The Struggle Against Terrorism,' restored and unveiled in Morelia, Mexico." See Great Art. Blog. January 28, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and detail illus. in color
Artlyst. "Philip Guston's Anti-Fascist Mural Restored And Unveiled in Mexico." January 29, 2025. Online, detail illus. in color and mentioned in text
Carollo, Elisa. "Philip Guston's Newly Restored 'The Struggle Against Terrorism' Is Set to Be Unveiled in Mexico." Observer (London), January 29, 2025. Online, detail illus. in color (pre-restoration), detail illus. in color (post-restoration), illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Art Daily. "Colossal Philip Guston mural returning to public view." January 29, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural)
Villa, Angelica. "Philip Guston's Restored 1930s Antiwar Mural to Go on View in Mexico." ARTnews, January 30. 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mistry, Elizabeth. "Restored mural by Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner unveiled in Mexico." Art Newspaper (London), January 31, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), illus. in color (during restoration) and mentioned in text
Mikkilä, Lotta. "Meksikossa kunnostettiin fasismia vastustava muraali – 'Viesti tuntuu yhtä tärkeältä kuin 90 vuotta sitten"'" Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki), January 31, 2025. Online, details illus. in color, pre- and post-restoration and mentioned in text
Graham, Thomas. "Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico." Guardian, January 31, 2025. Online.
Burnett, Victoria. "Restored Anti-Fascism Mural by Philip Guston Unveiled in Mexico." New York Times, February 1, 2025. Online, illus. in color, detail illus. in color and mentioned in text
Espinoza, Yazmin. "Restauracion: Reabren al Publico el Mural 'La Lucha Contra el Terrorismo." Le regresan su Grandeza." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), February 1, 2025, pp. 10A, 11A, detail illus. in color pp. 10A-11A and mentioned in text
Mistry, Elizabeth. "Mural hidden behind fake wall sees the light: Obscured behind a false wall at a Mexico museum for decades, the bracing mural painted by Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner will finally be revealed after extensive restoration." Art Newspaper (London), February 2025, p. 10, illus. in color (during restoration) and mentioned in text
Biglietti, Nicoletta. "Rivive, dopo quarant'anni, l'immenso murale messicano di Philip Guston." ArtsLife (Milan), February 1, 2025. Online, detail illus. in color, detail illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), illus. in color (before restoration) and mentioned in text
Artforum. "Restored Guston Mural Unveiled in Mexico." February 3, 2025. Online, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration) and mentioned in text
Boucher, Brian. "Controversial Philip Guston Mural Unveiled in Mexico After Major Restoration." artnet News, February 3, 2025. Online, illus. in color, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration), illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Burnett, Victoria. "Once Hidden, a Guston Mural is Revived." New York Times, February 4, 2025, p. C6, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration) and mentioned in text
ArteFuse. "Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish's Monumental Mural Restored to Its Former Glory." February 5, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Simeone, Mario Francesco. "Il murale antifascista di Philip Guston e Reuben Kadish risorge in Messico." Exibart (Rome), February 5, 2025. Online, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration), illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Wizevich, Eli. "See a Controversial Anti-Fascist Mural From the 1930s Returned to Its Former Glory." Smithsonian Magazine, February 6, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), details illus. in color (pre- and post-conservation) and mentioned in text
Lesauvage, Magali. "Le Mexique dévoile une fresque de Guston et Kadish contre le fascisme." Le Quotidien de l'Art (Paris), February 6, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), detail illus. in b&w (of artists sitting on scaffolding), detail illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration) and mentioned in text
Pontone, Maya. "Philip Guston Mural Warning Against Fascism Restored in Mexico." Hyperallergic, February 16, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Yau, John. "Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Seek Out the Enemy Within." Hyperallergic, March 3, 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Washington Mail. "Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Search Out the Enemy Inside." March 4, 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dunbar, Maxwell. "Philip Guston and the Professionalization of Artists under the New Deal Art Projects." Source: Notes in the History of Art, 44:3, Spring 2025, pp. 196-205, mentioned in text p. 199, not illus.
Jager, David. "Under the Hood: A new show of Philip Guston's work begs the question: How much context is too much?" Tablet, June 2025, pp. 99-101, mentioned in text p. 100, not illus.
De Micco, Luana. "A Parigi l'ironia critica di Philip Guston e Raymond Pettibon." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, October 13, 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Vieville, Camille, "Le Monde Selon Philip Guston." Art Newspaper (Paris), November 2025. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Restoring a Legacy/ "The Struggle Against Terrorism" by Philip Guston. Directed by Laura Furcic. 2025. Film.
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 29 illus. in b&w p. 48 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text pp. 18, 46 and 198
Molina, Benjamin. "El Fresco de Kadish y Goldstein en el Museo Michoacano. Atalaya (Morelia). February 6, 1935, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Molina, Benjamin. "El Fresco deKadish y Goldstein en el Museo Michoacano." Atalaya (Morelia), March 10, 1935, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Time. "On a Mexican Wall." April 1, 1935, pp. 46, 48, illus. in b&w p. 48 and mentioned in text pp. 46 and 48
Millier, Arthur. "Brush Strokes: Time Magazine Errs." Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1935, section Part II, p. 9, not illus.
Dungan, H.L. "Artists of America Are Given Chance to Show their Wares." Oakland Tribune, June 23, 1935, p. S-7, mentioned in text, not illus.
Los Angeles Times. "Art Exhibitions Reviewed." March 8, 1936, p. C9, mentioned in text, not illus.
Richard, Paul. "The Gusto of Guston: The Artist's Compelling Last Pictures at the Phillips." Washington Post, April 9, 1981, pp. D1, D13, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 60 as part of Chronology, not illus.
Greene, Alison de Lima. "The Artist as Performer: Philip Guston's Early Work." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 55–61, mentioned in text p. 56, not illus., listed as "The Struggle Against Terrorism"
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, illus. in b&w p. 15, no. 2 (of artists standing in front of mural), Robert Storr essay
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, mentioned in text p. 43, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "Laughing in the Dark." Independent Magazine, February 23, 1991, pp. 48–52, mentioned in text p. 52, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Mercado, Estela Alcántara. "La ascensión del fascismo, tema de los murales de Guston, Kadish y Noguchi." Gaceta UNAM (Mexico City), November 17, 1994, p. 31, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Realism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, illus. in b&w no. 144 p. 145 and mentioned in text p. 143 (unpaginated)
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, mentioned in text p. 397, not illus.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. Paper Museum: Writing on Painting, Mostly. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996, mentioned in text p. 202, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997, illus. in b&w no. 9 (following p. 18) (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 19
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Art; The Shock of the Old; a Fading Mural Is Revealed as a Philip Guston, and with Careful Work, Regains Its Former Brilliance." Los Angeles Times, June 7, 1998, section Calendar, pp. 3, 90, 92, mentioned in text p. 90, not illus.
Gibson, Michael. "Philip Guston: A Rage to Paint." International Herald Tribune, September 30–October 1, 2000, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, illus. in b&w no. 1
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 134, not illus.
Sewell, Brian. "What a waste of a little bit of talent." Evening Standard (London), January 23, 2004, section The Arts, pp. 32-33, mentioned in text p. 32, not illus.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "Philip Guston at the Royal Academy." Sunday Telegraph (London), January 25, 2004, mentioned in text
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in b&w and in detail
Campbell, Peter. "Philip Guston fouls the nest." London Review of Books, February 5, 2004. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lopez, Eugenio Mercado. "La inquisicion, Un mural del Museo Regional Michoacano de Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), section Acento, May 12, 2004, pp. 2-5, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) p. 2 and details illus. in b&w pp. 3, 4 and 5
Aguilar, Claudia. "Buscan revalorar La Inquisición." Cambio de Michoacan, May 12, 2004, p. 26, detail illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Montejano, Yolanda. "Llegan norteamericanos para recuperar mural." Provincia El Diario Grande de Michoacán, May 12, 2004, section A, p. 9, detail illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Castillo, Argelia. "Guston y Kadish en el Museo Regional Michoacano." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), section Acento, March 16, 2005, pp. 8–10, called "The Struggle Against War and Fascism" in article
Magana, Magdiel Torres. "Tiene valor incalculanble mural De la Inquisicion." Provincia (Morelia), March 19, 2005, section Cultura, p. 10, illus. in b&w p. 10 of mural in need of restoration, also illus. in color p. 1 as "Llamado De la Inquisicion"
Olivo, Demetrio. "El Mural 'La Santa Inquisicion: Tesoro redescubierto." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), March 20, 2005, pp. 20A, 21A, illus. in b&w p. 20A of mural in need of restoration
Melandri, Lisa, and Michael R. Taylor. Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in b&w Fig. 8
Landau, Ellen G. "Double Consciousness in Mexico: How Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish Painted a Morelian Mural." American Art 21, no. 1 (2007): pp. 74–97, illus. in b&w photo of mural p. 75, called "The Struggle against Terrorism", also color detail of mural in its current state illus on p. 88, and "Lamentation" panel of mural illus. in b&w on p. 89, and panel from mural illus. in b&w p. 90
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, illus. in b&w p. 8
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in b&w p. 27 and mentioned in text p. 26
Schreier, Christoph, Poul Erik Tøjner, Isabel Dervaux, and Michael Semff. Philip Guston: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus. (Michael Semff essay)
McKenzie, Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980". In Studio International Yearbook. New York: The Studio Trust, 2007, pp. 60-67, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Esplund, Lance. "Guston Times Two: The Morgan's Philip Guston Retrospective Presents an Artist at His Peaks and Valleys, Lance Esplund Writes." New York Sun, May 1, 2008, p. 13, mentioned in text p. 13, not illus.
Boime, Al. "Breaking Open the Wall: The Morelia Mural of Guston, Kadish and Langsner." Burlington Magazine, July 2008, Fig. 14 illus. in color p. 453, Fig. 18 illus. in b&w p. 455 and detail illus in color Fig. 21 p. 457
Landau, Ellen G. Mexico and American Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 21, p. 35 and mentioned in text pp. vii, ix, x, 34-59
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 138 (English)/139 (German), not illus.
Mexico: A Revolution in Art 1910 - 1940. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2013, Fig. 57 detail illus. in color p. 147 and mentioned in text pp. 146-148, 171 and 195. Also, photograph of artists standing in front of mural illus. in b&w p. 146
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text pp. 8-9, 23, 87, and 142, not illus.
Icônes américaines—Chefs-d'œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, illus. in b&w photo of Guston and Kadish in front of mural, Fig. 1
Cole, Thomas B. "The Porch Philip Guston." JAMA, July 12, 2016, mentioned in text p. 132 as "The Struggle Against Terror," not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 14, illus. in b&w p. 31 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 30
La peinture Américaine des années 1930: The Age of Anxiety. Exh. cat. Paris: Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, 2016, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016, mentioned in text p. 135, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in b&w p. 30 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 29
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue no. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. guide. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018, illus. in b&w p. 9 and mentioned in text p. 8
Seo, Yoo Byung. "My God, Did I Do That?" Heren, July 2018, pp. 224-229, mentioned in text p. 226, not illus.
Lopez, Eugenio Mercado. "El terror: contexto y motivo del mural de Guston y Kadish en el Museo Michoacano." In Arquitectura y Murales en Michoacán Génesis de una iconografía para la identidad regional, 71-96. Morelia: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, 2018, image 1, central panel illus. in b&w p. 77; image 2, top left panel illus. in b&w p. 78; image 3, bottom left panel illus. in b&w p. 78; image 8, detail illus. in b&w p. 89; image 10, detail bottom left panel illus. in b&w p. 90; image 12, bottom left panel illus. in b&w p. 91; image 14 and 15, details top right illus. in b&w p. 92; image 16, of artists standing in front of mural illus. in b&w p. 94
Robinson, Andy. "El mural prohibido de Philip Guston." La Vanguardia (Barcelona), January 27, 2019. Online, detail illus. in color and illus. in b&w with artists standing in front
Teicholz, Tom. "Philip Guston's Year of Magical Resilience." Forbes, September 27, 2019. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Stromberg, Matt. "Learn More About Philip Guston's Only Surviving Mural in California." Hyperallergic, November 26, 2019. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Sierra, Sonia. "Mujeres y hombres de EU que crearon murales bajo el influjo de mexicanos." El Universal, February 14, 2020. Online, illus. in color maquette of the mural
Selvin, Claire. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." ARTnews, July 22, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Trang Ps. "Danh họa Philip Guston: Từ lối vẽ hình tượng đến trừu tượng và ngược lại." Luxio (Ho Chi Minh City), August 7, 2020. Online, illus. in b&w with artists standing in front and mentioned in text
Giuliano, Charles. "Philip Guston Now to Not Now: What He Meant to Boston Artists." Berkshire Fine Arts, September 26, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion." The New York Times, October 2, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Still Provokes a Furor." The New York Times, October 3, 2020, p. C5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Elliott, David. "The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston." Border Crossings, November 2020, pp. 48-55, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
Luke, Ben. "Philip Guston show: 2022 opening is welcome news by confusion still remains." Art Newspaper (London), November 6, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Miranda, Carolina A. "Column: The art show of 2020 and how it unearthed the Mexican influences in American art." Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in b&w p. 11, detail illus. in b&w p. 184 and mentioned in text pp. 10, 183-184 and 223
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in b&w p. 10 and mentioned in text p. 11
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 5 illus. in b&w p. 18, illus. in b&w p. 283 as part of a magazine clipping and mentioned in text p. 16
Lucie-Smith, Edward. World of Art: Movements in Art Since 1945. 4th ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020, mentioned in text p. 184, not illus.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020., plate 106 detail illus. in color p. 159 and mentioned in text pp. 25-26 and 177
Nadel, Dan. "Now You See Me." Artforum, January/February 2021, pp. 106-110, illus. in b&w p. 106 and mentioned in text p. 108
Tallman, Susan. "Philip Guston's Discomfort Zone: How is it that the artist, dead these forty years, is still pushing our buttons?" New York Review of Books, January 14, 2021, pp. 12-15, mentioned in text p. 13, not illus.
Harris, Gareth. "Q&A: Philip Guston's daughter Musa Mayer on her new book and the uproar surrounding the artist's postponed show." Art Newspaper (London), February 4, 2021. Online, mentioned in text as "The Inquisition", not illus.
Frasco, Elizabeth. "An American Mural in Morelia, Mexico." Academia Letters, April 2022, detail illus. in color Fig. 1 and mentioned in text
Whyte, Murray. "The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning -- here's the result." Boston Globe, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Samudzi, Zoé. "Under the Hood." Jewish Currents, November 16, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
González, Rosa Boshier. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, December 2022-January 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
González, Rosa Boshier. "Philip Guston." Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2022/23, pp. 57-58, mentioned in text p. 57, not illus.
Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, mentioned in text p. 18, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Tate Modern to present a landmark exhibition of Philip Guston this October." FAD Magazine, August 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Chow, Vivienne. "15 Must-See Shows This Fall in Europe, From a Major Survey of Marina Abramović to a Face Off Between Edvard Munch and Goya: Philip Guston" artnet News, September 14, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?' Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK." Guardian, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Harris, Gareth. "Postponed Philip Guston survey finally opens at Tate Modern." Art Newspaper, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Luke, Ben. "Philip Guston at Tate Modern review: riven with anger, engorged with love, haunted by suffering." Evening Standard (London), October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Florian, Federico. "Philip Guston arriva alla Tate Modern." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?'" Guardian, October 4, 2023, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kent, Sarah. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review - a compelling look at an artist who derided the KKK: How to appear daft while addressing the dark side." Arts Desk, October 5, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Thalberg, Lisbeth. "Philip Guston. Tate Modern. London." Martin Cid Magazine, October 7, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Januszczak, Waldemar. "Philip Guston: forget the Ku Klux Klan row, this show is unmissable." Times (London), October 8, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art Daily. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years on view at Tate Modern." October 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years opens at Tate Modern." FAD Magazine, October 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Carolin, Clare. "Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'" The Conversation, October 10, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lloyd, Joe. "Philip Guston: This straight-laced, work-focused retrospective affirms Philip Guston's place as one of the 20th century's finest painters." Studio International, October 19, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cohen, Alexander. "The Jewish artist who perfectly captured the turbulent world he was witnessing." Jewish Chronicle, October 19, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston: This long-delayed restrospective is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of a 50-year career." Art Newspaper, November 2023, p. 62, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★." Art Newspaper, November 2, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Woolf, Jan. "The bigot in the hood." Morning Star (London), November 16, 2023. Online, detail illus. in color
Nelson, Saul. "Insomniac Visions." Sidecar (NLR blog), November 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lavrador, Judicaël. "L'art taillé dans le vif de Philip Guston." Beaux Arts Magazine, December 2023, pp. 66-73, mentioned in text p. 72, not illus.
Barber, Tiffany E. and Joan Choi. "White Hoods, White Masks." Tate Etc., Issue 60, Winter 2023, pp. 78-83, detail illus. in b&w p. 78
Holman, Matthew. "Guston: antirazzista e contro la guerra, condanna i criminali umanizzandoli." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, December 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 14, illus. in b&w p. 31 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text p. 30
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in b&w no. 12 (unpaginated) and illus. in color no. 14 (unpaginated)
Kellaway, Dave. "Philip Guston (1913-1980) Bearing Witness to Brutality and Injustice." Anti-Capitalist Resistance, February 3, 2024. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dunbar, Max. "The Daily Struggle: Philip Guston and American Art in the 1930s." PhD diss. Washington University in St. Louis, 2024, illus. in b&w Fig. 2.4 p. 88 and details illus. in b&w Fig. 2.5 p. 89 and Fig. 2.6 p. 90. Also mentioned in text pp. 16, 82, 87, 91-94, 98 and 100
Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024, illus. in b&w p. 21 and mentioned in text p. 18
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) no. 28 p. 214 and mentioned in text p. 50
Muralismo en Michoacán. Continuidades y tipologías de un movimiento artístico. Michoacán: Cuarta República, Editorial de Michoacán, 2024, illus. in color p. 123, details illus. in color pp. 124 and 125 and mentioned in text p. 122
Scott, Chadd. "Philip Guston mural, 'The Struggle Against Terrorism,' restored and unveiled in Morelia, Mexico." See Great Art. Blog. January 28, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and detail illus. in color
Artlyst. "Philip Guston's Anti-Fascist Mural Restored And Unveiled in Mexico." January 29, 2025. Online, detail illus. in color and mentioned in text
Carollo, Elisa. "Philip Guston's Newly Restored 'The Struggle Against Terrorism' Is Set to Be Unveiled in Mexico." Observer (London), January 29, 2025. Online, detail illus. in color (pre-restoration), detail illus. in color (post-restoration), illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Art Daily. "Colossal Philip Guston mural returning to public view." January 29, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural)
Villa, Angelica. "Philip Guston's Restored 1930s Antiwar Mural to Go on View in Mexico." ARTnews, January 30. 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mistry, Elizabeth. "Restored mural by Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner unveiled in Mexico." Art Newspaper (London), January 31, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), illus. in color (during restoration) and mentioned in text
Mikkilä, Lotta. "Meksikossa kunnostettiin fasismia vastustava muraali – 'Viesti tuntuu yhtä tärkeältä kuin 90 vuotta sitten"'" Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki), January 31, 2025. Online, details illus. in color, pre- and post-restoration and mentioned in text
Graham, Thomas. "Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico." Guardian, January 31, 2025. Online.
Burnett, Victoria. "Restored Anti-Fascism Mural by Philip Guston Unveiled in Mexico." New York Times, February 1, 2025. Online, illus. in color, detail illus. in color and mentioned in text
Espinoza, Yazmin. "Restauracion: Reabren al Publico el Mural 'La Lucha Contra el Terrorismo." Le regresan su Grandeza." La Voz de Michoacán (Morelia), February 1, 2025, pp. 10A, 11A, detail illus. in color pp. 10A-11A and mentioned in text
Mistry, Elizabeth. "Mural hidden behind fake wall sees the light: Obscured behind a false wall at a Mexico museum for decades, the bracing mural painted by Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner will finally be revealed after extensive restoration." Art Newspaper (London), February 2025, p. 10, illus. in color (during restoration) and mentioned in text
Biglietti, Nicoletta. "Rivive, dopo quarant'anni, l'immenso murale messicano di Philip Guston." ArtsLife (Milan), February 1, 2025. Online, detail illus. in color, detail illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), illus. in color (before restoration) and mentioned in text
Artforum. "Restored Guston Mural Unveiled in Mexico." February 3, 2025. Online, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration) and mentioned in text
Boucher, Brian. "Controversial Philip Guston Mural Unveiled in Mexico After Major Restoration." artnet News, February 3, 2025. Online, illus. in color, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration), illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Burnett, Victoria. "Once Hidden, a Guston Mural is Revived." New York Times, February 4, 2025, p. C6, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration) and mentioned in text
ArteFuse. "Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish's Monumental Mural Restored to Its Former Glory." February 5, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Simeone, Mario Francesco. "Il murale antifascista di Philip Guston e Reuben Kadish risorge in Messico." Exibart (Rome), February 5, 2025. Online, details illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration), illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text
Wizevich, Eli. "See a Controversial Anti-Fascist Mural From the 1930s Returned to Its Former Glory." Smithsonian Magazine, February 6, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), details illus. in color (pre- and post-conservation) and mentioned in text
Lesauvage, Magali. "Le Mexique dévoile une fresque de Guston et Kadish contre le fascisme." Le Quotidien de l'Art (Paris), February 6, 2025. Online, illus. in b&w (of artists standing in front of mural), detail illus. in b&w (of artists sitting on scaffolding), detail illus. in color (pre- and post-restoration) and mentioned in text
Pontone, Maya. "Philip Guston Mural Warning Against Fascism Restored in Mexico." Hyperallergic, February 16, 2025. Online, illus. in color
Yau, John. "Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Seek Out the Enemy Within." Hyperallergic, March 3, 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Washington Mail. "Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Search Out the Enemy Inside." March 4, 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dunbar, Maxwell. "Philip Guston and the Professionalization of Artists under the New Deal Art Projects." Source: Notes in the History of Art, 44:3, Spring 2025, pp. 196-205, mentioned in text p. 199, not illus.
Jager, David. "Under the Hood: A new show of Philip Guston's work begs the question: How much context is too much?" Tablet, June 2025, pp. 99-101, mentioned in text p. 100, not illus.
De Micco, Luana. "A Parigi l'ironia critica di Philip Guston e Raymond Pettibon." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, October 13, 2025. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Vieville, Camille, "Le Monde Selon Philip Guston." Art Newspaper (Paris), November 2025. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Restoring a Legacy/ "The Struggle Against Terrorism" by Philip Guston. Directed by Laura Furcic. 2025. Film.
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 29 illus. in b&w p. 48 (of artists standing in front of mural) and mentioned in text pp. 18, 46 and 198
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Title
The Struggle Against Terrorism
Date
1935
Medium
Fresco
Dimensions
480 × 318 in. (1219.2 × 807.7 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left side: PHILIP GOLDSTEIN/ REUBEN KADISH/ J.H. LANGSNER -- 1935
Catalogue Number
P35.001
Note
created by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish, with assistance by Jules Langsner.
In the February 10, 1935 issue of the Los Angeles Times, the mural was referred to as The Struggle Against Terrorism. It has also been referred to as The Struggle Against War and Fascism, The Struggle Against War and Terror or The Inquisition
Provenance
Museo Regional Michoacano, Morelia, Mexico
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