Cy Twombly

Image, Text, Paratext

Edited by Thierry Greub

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Extent: 516 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: American Studies, Art & Art History

Series: Morphomata

Series volume number: 37

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2017)

ISBN: 9783770562831

6.18 x 9.17 inches

Price: $132.00

In stock

The artworks of the US artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) are considered to be hermetic and inaccessible. Pencil scribblings, explosions of paint, tumbling lines, overlapping layers of color, and inscriptions, geometrical figures, numerals, rows of numbers, words, fragments of quotations, and enigmatic work-titles present very special challenges to both researchers and viewers. While art historians together with scholars of Egyptology, Archaeology, German, Greek, English, Japanese, and the Romance languages inquire into the relation between title, work, and inscribed quotations, leading representatives of research on Twombly focus on the visual language and scriptural-imagistic quality of Cy Twombly’s work. 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.

  • Edited by Thierry Greub