Cy Twombly | 
| Creator: Nicholas Serota
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1192599
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.7 x 1
ISBN: 1854377698
EAN: 9781854377692
Publication Date: May 2008
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Product Description
Cy Twombly (b.1928) is one of the leading figures from the generation of American artists that also included Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Unlike them, he left America early in his career to live and work in Italy where he drew inspiration from European literature and classical culture. He swiftly built an international reputation with his uniquely expressive abstract paintings and works on paper.Accompanying a major, touring retrospective of Twombly's work, to be held in his 80th year, this book will provide a long-needed critical overview of the artist's career, focusing on his paintings, drawings and sculpture.Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, Richard Shiff, Nicholas Cullinan and the artist Tacita Dean will all contribute to the catalogue, which will also include a rare interview with the artist, an illustrated chronology, an exhibition history and extensive bibliography.Combining the latest scholarship with numerous colour illustrations, this will be the most thorough examination of the life and work of this extraordinary artist for years to come.
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As close as you can get November 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
No reproduction can approach the texture and fascination of a real Cy Twombly. This beautifully produced book lets you imagine some lovely things. Nice photo essay on his life, too.
Cy Twombly September 18, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Don't be misled by the different total page numbers given for this and the hardback - I ordered both
and received two versions with the same text and illustrations (the 192 page total is incorrect - it actually
matches the hardback).
A wonderful book though, which should be seen as a worthwhile supplement to the recent publications of the
Leeman monograph and the 50 years of work on paper.
There is some duplication with the Leeman, but not enough to hold back.
Twombly's season August 9, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is the catalogue for the current Tate exhibition that focuses on Twombly's various series that have marked his long career (the Ferragosto paintings from 1961, the Blackboard paintings from the late 1960's, the Bolsena paintings from 1969, the later Four Seasons cycles, etc). Without being a retrospective, this book sheds a new light on a painter that has gained in stature over the years. It enables the reader to discover a coherence and continuity in an apparently haphazard body of works and shows what a master of color and composition the artist is. The high-quality illustrations add to the value of this book which, in my opinion, is one of the best published recently on the artist (I own more than 20 books on Cy Twombly).
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