Cy Twombly: The Ceiling; Un Plafond Pour Le Louvre
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: **french-english text**
In 2010, the Musée du Louvre unveiled one of the most audacious acts of artistic patronage in recent memory: an monumental ceiling painting by the legendary American artist Cy Twombly, commissioned for the Salle des Bronzes antiques — a gesture that ignited fierce debate and profound admiration in equal measure. Cy Twombly: The Ceiling / Un plafond pour le Louvre, edited by the distinguished curator Marie-Laure Bernadac, chronicles this landmark commission through sumptuous documentation, bringing together critical essays, preparatory studies, and breathtaking photographic records of the completed work, a vast composition of turquoise blue punctuated by mythological symbols that transform one of the world's most visited museums into a living canvas. Twombly's signature vocabulary — gestural marks, classical allusions, and a painterly language that straddles abstraction and antiquity — finds its most monumental expression in this ceiling, creating a dialogue across centuries between ancient artefacts and twentieth-century sensibility. This bilingual French-English volume presents the intersection of institutional heritage and avant-garde vision, arguing that great art does not merely inhabit historical space but actively reimagines it. For anyone captivated by the boundaries between contemporary art and classical tradition, this volume poses a question that lingers long after its pages are closed: where does the museum end and the artwork begin?
Author: Cy Twombly
Format: Hardback
Published: 2010, Editions du Regard
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: **french-english text**
In 2010, the Musée du Louvre unveiled one of the most audacious acts of artistic patronage in recent memory: an monumental ceiling painting by the legendary American artist Cy Twombly, commissioned for the Salle des Bronzes antiques — a gesture that ignited fierce debate and profound admiration in equal measure. Cy Twombly: The Ceiling / Un plafond pour le Louvre, edited by the distinguished curator Marie-Laure Bernadac, chronicles this landmark commission through sumptuous documentation, bringing together critical essays, preparatory studies, and breathtaking photographic records of the completed work, a vast composition of turquoise blue punctuated by mythological symbols that transform one of the world's most visited museums into a living canvas. Twombly's signature vocabulary — gestural marks, classical allusions, and a painterly language that straddles abstraction and antiquity — finds its most monumental expression in this ceiling, creating a dialogue across centuries between ancient artefacts and twentieth-century sensibility. This bilingual French-English volume presents the intersection of institutional heritage and avant-garde vision, arguing that great art does not merely inhabit historical space but actively reimagines it. For anyone captivated by the boundaries between contemporary art and classical tradition, this volume poses a question that lingers long after its pages are closed: where does the museum end and the artwork begin?