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Reading Cy Twombly - Poetry in Paint (Hardcover)
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Reading Cy Twombly - Poetry in Paint (Hardcover)
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Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten
words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho,
Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and
sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive
feature of his work. Reading Cy Twombly poses both literary and art
historical questions. How does poetic reference in largely abstract
works affect their interpretation? Reading Cy Twombly is the first
book to focus specifically on the artist's use of poetry. Twombly's
library formed an extension of his studio and he sometimes painted
with a book open in front of him. Drawing on original research in
an archive that includes his paint-stained and annotated books,
Mary Jacobus's account--richly illustrated with more than 125 color
and black-and-white images--unlocks an important aspect of
Twombly's practice. Jacobus shows that poetry was an indispensable
source of reference throughout Twombly's career; as he said, he
"never really separated painting and literature." Among much else,
she explores the influence of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson;
Twombly's fondness for Greek pastoral poetry and Virgil's Eclogues;
the inspiration of the Iliad and Ovid's Metamorphoses; and
Twombly's love of Keats and his collaboration with Octavio Paz.
Twombly's art reveals both his distinctive relationship to poetry
and his use of quotation to solve formal problems. A modern
painter, he belongs in a critical tradition that goes back, by way
of Roland Barthes, to Baudelaire. Reading Cy Twombly opens up
fascinating new readings of some of the most important paintings
and drawings of the twentieth century.
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