商品簡介
Cy Twombly (b. 1928), one of America's greatest living artists, defies easy categorization. Subverting traditional distinctions between painting and drawing, brush and pencil work, written words and images, he has made a highly individual contribution to the history of 20th-century art. In his canvases, turfs, swirls, twig bundles, ideograms and ornamental motifs confront one another in implied narrative; biomorphic entities resembling orifices, polyps, fringes or erupting effluvia conjure a protean sexuality; delicate cross-hatchings and tracery interacting with graffiti or detached letters and words evoke multiple associations.
This monograph interprets Twombly's huge and complex body of work through a close study of his pictures, following both a thematic and chronological progression from the late 1950s to his most recent work. From a scrawl to a drawing or a word, Twombly's sophisticated work is an articulation of the language of memory and desire, from a place in which painting, drawing and writing merge into a single entity.
作者簡介
Richard Leeman is a lecturer in the history of contemporary art at the University of Bordeaux, and an advisor to the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris.
