Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons
New York: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2008.
First American Edition. Hardcover.
A comprehensive overview of the life and work - paintings, drawings, and sculpture - of Cy Twombly (1928-2011) printed in association with a major retrospective commemorating his eightieth year. Twombly was indifferent to distinctions between Pop and abstraction, between writing, drawing, and painting, and between literature and art - and his art reflects that hybridism. “I’m not a pure; I’m not an abstractionist completely. There has to be history behind the thought.” For Twombly, this history entails a wealth of literary and mythic allusion and an openness to all kinds of forms. With contributions from Richard Shiff, Nicolas Cullinan and Tacita Dean, and a rare interview with the artist by Nicholas Serota, an illustrated chronology, an exhibition history, and an extensive biography.
Cy Twombly is a leading figure in a heterogeneous generation of American artists that also includes Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Unlike these others, he left America early in his career to live and work in Italy, where he has drawn inspiration from European literature, classical culture and the Italian landscape.
Item #902665ISBN: 9781933045887
9-5/8 x 11-3/4", green cloth with white spine print, light gray endpapers, 269pp, chronology, bibliography, exhibited works, lenders and credits, index, fully illustrated in color, fold-outs.
Tight, square, clean of owner's marks, cloth bright, fine in dust wrapper with a little crimping to extreme edges, in protective mylar.
Price: $125.00