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Reading Cy Twombly.

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. Reading Cy Twomb...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobus, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.