Reading Cy Twombly : Poetry in Paint
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 Twombl...
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Princeton University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Twombly's books
- Mediterranean passages: retrospect
- Psychogram and Parnassus: how (not) to read a Twombly
- Twombly's vagueness: the poetics of abstraction
- Achilles's horses, Twombly's war
- Romantic Twombly
- The pastoral stain
- Psyche: the double door
- Twombly's lapse
- Postscript: writing in light.