Cy Twombly The Natural World: Selected Works, 2000-2007
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
In the twilight years of his legendary career, Cy Twombly turned his gaze toward the organic world, producing a breathtaking series of paintings that stand as a meditation on nature, memory, and the passage of time. Cy Twombly: The Natural World — Selected Works, 2000–2007 presents a curated selection of the artist's late-period masterworks, chronicling his sustained dialogue with botanical imagery, mythological resonance, and the raw, elemental forces that animate the visible world. James Rondeau, writing with scholarly precision and lyrical sensitivity, illuminates how Twombly distilled a lifetime of classical learning and painterly intuition into canvases of extraordinary emotional depth. This catalogue, produced in partnership with The Art Institute of Chicago and published by Yale University Press, argues persuasively that these final decades represent not a coda but a crescendo in Twombly's oeuvre — works that pulse with an almost primal energy. Rondeau's analysis situates the paintings within the wider arc of twentieth-century abstraction while insisting on their singular, irreducible character. For those who have stood before a Twombly canvas and felt the uncanny sense of a world simultaneously ancient and urgently alive, this volume will reveal precisely why that feeling is impossible to shake.
Author: James Rondeau
Format: Hardback
Published: 2009, Yale University Press / The Art Institute of Chicago
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
In the twilight years of his legendary career, Cy Twombly turned his gaze toward the organic world, producing a breathtaking series of paintings that stand as a meditation on nature, memory, and the passage of time. Cy Twombly: The Natural World — Selected Works, 2000–2007 presents a curated selection of the artist's late-period masterworks, chronicling his sustained dialogue with botanical imagery, mythological resonance, and the raw, elemental forces that animate the visible world. James Rondeau, writing with scholarly precision and lyrical sensitivity, illuminates how Twombly distilled a lifetime of classical learning and painterly intuition into canvases of extraordinary emotional depth. This catalogue, produced in partnership with The Art Institute of Chicago and published by Yale University Press, argues persuasively that these final decades represent not a coda but a crescendo in Twombly's oeuvre — works that pulse with an almost primal energy. Rondeau's analysis situates the paintings within the wider arc of twentieth-century abstraction while insisting on their singular, irreducible character. For those who have stood before a Twombly canvas and felt the uncanny sense of a world simultaneously ancient and urgently alive, this volume will reveal precisely why that feeling is impossible to shake.