Bibliograph

Chalk, the art and erasure of Cy Twombly, Joshua Rivkin

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Chalk, the art and erasure of Cy Twombly, Joshua Rivkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chalk

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1019883073

Responsibility statement

Joshua Rivkin

Sub title

the art and erasure of Cy Twombly

Summary

"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 Including previously unpublished photographs, Chalk presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we've ever encountered, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we've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"--, Provided by publisher

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