| Edition |
English-language ed. |
| Description |
323 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: Paris : Editions du Regard, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-313) and index. |
| Language |
Translated from the French by Mary Whittall. |
| Contents |
I. Primitive, ritual, fetish -- II. Scribbles -- III. Destroying painting -- IV. A mythography of longing -- V. Words in painting -- VI. Romantic symbolism -- VII. Baroque profusion -- VIII. Numbers -- IX. A theory of whirlwinds -- X. Neurosis and the humanist -- XI. The fig, the lotus, the whirling dervish -- XII. Metamorphoses -- XIII. Melancholy -- XIV. The insistence of letters |
| Summary |
"Cy Twombly (b. 1928), one of America's greatest living artists, defies easy categorization. Subverting traditional distinctions between painting and drawing, brush and pencil work, written words and images, he has made a highly individual contribution to the history of twentieth-century art. In his canvases, turfs, swirls, twig bundles, ideograms and ornamental motifs confront one another in implied narrative; biomorphic entities resembling orifices, polyps, fringes or erupting effluvia conjure a protean sexuality; delicate cross-hatchings and tracery interacting with graffiti or detached letters and words evoke multiple associations." "This monograph interprets Twombly's huge and complex body of work through a close study of his oeuvre, following both a thematic and chronological progression from the late 1950s to his most recent work."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011.
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Hauteville, Isabelle d'.
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| ISBN |
2080304836 (hbk.) |
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9782080304834 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
978280304834 (hbk.) |
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9782080304834 (hbk.) |
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