Cy Twombly : a monograph /
Richard Leeman ; picture research, Isabelle d'Hauteville ; [translated from the French by Mary Whittall].
- English-language edition.
- 323 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
Originally published: Paris : Éditions du Regard, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-313) and index.
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.
"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.
Translated from the French by Mary Whittall.
2080304836 9782080304834
2005278325
Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011 --Criticism and interpretation.