{"product_id":"reading-cy-twombly-poetry-in-paint-9780691170725","title":"Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book on the central importance of literary sources in the paintings of Cy Twombly\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. \u003ci\u003eReading Cy Twombly\u003c\/i\u003e poses both literary and art historical questions. How does poetic reference in largely abstract works affect their interpretation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Cy Twombly\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to focus specifically on the artist's use of poetry. Twombly's library formed an extension of his studio and he sometimes painted with a book open in front of him. Drawing on original research in an archive that includes his paint-stained and annotated books, Mary Jacobus's account--richly illustrated with more than 125 color and black-and-white images--unlocks an important aspect of Twombly's practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacobus shows that poetry was an indispensable source of reference throughout Twombly's career; as he said, he \"never really separated painting and literature.\" Among much else, she explores the influence of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson; Twombly's fondness for Greek pastoral poetry and Virgil's \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e; the inspiration of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e; and Twombly's love of Keats and his collaboration with Octavio Paz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwombly's art reveals both his distinctive relationship to poetry and his use of quotation to solve formal problems. A modern painter, he belongs in a critical tradition that goes back, by way of Roland Barthes, to Baudelaire. \u003ci\u003eReading Cy Twombly\u003c\/i\u003e opens up fascinating new readings of some of the most important paintings and drawings of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691170725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mary Jacobus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774083952821,"sku":"9780691170725","price":46.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/reading-cy-twombly-poetry-in-paint-9780691170725","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}