Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons

by Serota, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9781933045887
• ISBN10: 1933045884
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

"Cy Twombly (b.1928) is one of the leading figures from the generation of American artists that also included Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Unlike them, he left America early in his career to live and work in Italy where he drew inspiration from European literature and classical culture. He swiftly built an international reputation with his uniquely expressive abstract paintings, works on paper and sculpture." "Accompanying a major, touring retrospective spanning over fifty years of Twombly's work, this book provides a long-needed critical overview of his career, focusing on his paintings, drawings and sculpture. There is also a rare and wide-ranging interview with the artist and a newly commissioned text by the artist Tacita Dean, as well as an illustrated chronology and extensive bibliography." "Combining the latest scholarship with numerous colour illustrations, this will be the most thorough examination of the life and work of this artist for years to come."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Charm	p. 10
A Panegyric	p. 32
History Behind the Thought	p. 42
Catalogue
American-Type Painting?	p. 54
Et in Arcadia Ego	p. 70
Insinuating Elegance: The Anxiety of Influence	p. 82
Abject Expressionism: The Ferragosto Paintings	p. 98
Longitude and Latitude: The Bolsena Paintings	p. 110
Fade to Grey: Treatise on the Veil	p. 120
Mourning and Melancholia: Nini's Paintings	p. 136
The Art of Assemblage: Columns, Collage and Bricolage	p. 150
Memory and the Mediterranean	p. 164
Writing on Water: The Green Paintings	p. 180
Seasons and Cycles: Quattro Stagioni	p. 192
Fire and Rapture: Bacchus, Psilax, Mainomenos	p. 218
Between Roses and Shadows	p. 228
Chronology	p. 232
Bibliography	p. 252
Exhibited Works	p. 264
Lenders and Credits	p. 267
Index	p. 268
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