Chalk the art and erasure of Cy Twombly Joshua Rivkin
Material type: TextPublisher: New York Melville House 2018Description: xviii, 478 p. ill. 24 cmContent type:- Text
- ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
- Band
- 9781612197180
- 9781612197180
- Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011
- Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011
- Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011
- 1900-2099
- BIOGRAPHY et AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers / bisacsh
- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) / bisacsh
- BIOGRAPHY et AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich et Famous / bisacsh
- Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History
- Art, Modern -- 21st century -- History
- Artists -- United States -- Biography
- Art, Modern
- Artists
- United States
- 759.13 TWO 23
- N6537.T96
- LI 90900
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Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.13 TWO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100640763 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Chalk follows the life and career of the great American painter Cy Twombly, from his life as a young painter, to his expatriate years in Italy; his obsession with myths and history, to his struggle for recognition. Twombly carefully managed his own image, writing almost nothing about his life and work, and giving only a handful of interviews. Through years of scholarship and archival research, first-person interviews, and a sensitive eye to Twombly's art, Joshua Rivkin separates the myth from the reality to bring to life a more complicated and fascinating Twombly than we've ever known.
Bibliography (p.452-468), Index (p.470-478)
"The first book to explore the life of Cy Twombly, one of the mostimportant and influential artists of the Twentieth Century Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history...including his own. Shuttling between his stunning homes in Italy and the United States, where he perfected his room-size canvases, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. Upon first seeing Twombly's remarkable paintings, author Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist, and began chasing every lead, big or small...anything that might illuminate who Twombly really was. Now, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly's life, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College, to his canonization in a 1979 Whitney retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg, to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death. Including previously unpublished photographs, Chalk presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we've ever encountered, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we've ever known"...
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface: In the Black (p. xi)
- Part 1
- 1 Edwin Parker (p. 3)
- 2 The Steps (p. 14)
- 3 Mosaic (p. 25)
- 4 That Side of the Line (p. 32)
- 5 Proof of Life (p. 42)
- 6 The Swing (p. 50)
- 7 Franchetti (p. 60)
- 8 Tatia (p. 68)
- 9 Poems to the Sea (p. 78)
- 10 The Age of Alexander (p. 86)
- 11 Via Monserrato (p. 98)
- 12 Transfixed (p. 105)
- 13 Unmade Beds (p. 113)
- 14 Discourses (p. 122)
- Part 2
- 15 Windows (p. 133)
- 16 Nicola (p. 145)
- 17 Exiles (p. 155)
- 18 Chalk (p. 166)
- 19 Shells (p. 178)
- 20 Nini's Paintings (p. 185)
- 21 The Excerpt (p. 190)
- 22 Bassano (p. 199)
- 23 Interior (p. 211)
- 24 Lotus (p. 221)
- 25 Collaborate (p. 234)
- Part 3
- 26 The Waves (p. 247)
- 27 Epitaph (p. 258)
- 28 Menil (p. 267)
- 29 Sat Goodbye (p. 280)
- 30 Retrospective (p. 293)
- 31 Old Dog (p. 308)
- 32 Lexington (p. 318)
- 33 Studio (p. 326)
- 34 Three Sculptures (p. 334)
- Part 4
- 35 Late Work (p. 343)
- 36 Cuttings (p. 351)
- 37 To Hold the Tension (p. 357)
- 38 Last Words (p. 364)
- 39 Foundation (p. 376)
- 40 The Way it Ends (p. 390)
- 41 Afterlife (p. 396)
- Illustration Credits (p. 408)
- Notes (p. 409)
- Bibliography (p. 452)
- Acknowledgments (p. 467)
- Index (p. 469)