Twombly's recent painting is incisive while at the same time more wholly supple and virtuosic. The graphic center of these works wrestles with the brushwork, calling to mind a crayon grasped tightly in a child's hand.
Explores the artist's engagement with antiquity, showing objects from his own collection of Greek and Roman art, joined by other antiquities and interwoven with paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, and photographs made by the artist ...
From his early works at the beginning of the 1950s which were characterized by the interweaving of text with his signature scrawled lines, to his final, vibrantly colored, paintings, this survey underscores Twombly's career as a series of ...
These impressive works testify to Twombly's ongoing creative vitality and reinforce his position as one of the greatest American artists of our time."--BOOK JACKET.
In this volume, an extended essay by Kirk Varnedoe, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, examines the artist's background and early education in Lexington,...
Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings. 1948 - 1960
Olena Chervonik traces Twombly's engagement with the theme of the Trojan War, which first appeared in the artist's work in the early 1960s, a decade before he made Fifty Days at Iliam.
The new book features some 120 photographic prints from the Cy Twombly Estate in Gaeta, most of them previously unpublished.
" "The eighty-four works in this retrospective, organized by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, in 2003 to mark Twombly's seventy-fifth birthday, were collected from the artist's studio, and many have not been previously exhibited.
The first comprehensive analysis of Cy Twombly's final years of creation, including the series The Last Paintings, completed just before his death in 2011
De Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes capte la modernité telle qu'elle revisite toute une culture classique, grecque et latine, à travers des noms et des mots écrits sur la toile, ou...
Essay by Achim Hochdeorfer. Photos of Twombly's home and studio by Sally Mann.
Cy Twombly: 1948-1960 / [engl. Übers.: Radka Donnell ; Joanna Southwell]. Vol. 1
This handsomely produced oversize book features three essays that examine these works in relation to Twombly's oeuvre, contemporaneous explorations of time, the Orpheus myth, and a musical composition that Twombly cited as an influence.
Through comprehensive interpretations of famous single works and groups in all the artistic media employed by Twombly, the volume's cross-disciplinary view opens up a route into the associative-referential visual language of Cy Twombly.