Reading Cy Twombly

Poetry in Paint

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Mary Jacobus

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Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. Reading Cy Twombly poses both literary and art historical questions. How

Author Biography:

Mary Jacobus is professor emerita of English at the University of Cambridge and Cornell University, and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She has written widely on visual art, Romanticism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. Her recent books include The Poetics of Psychoanalysis and Romantic Things. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and Cambridge, UK.

Release date NZ

August 16th, 2016

Author

Mary Jacobus

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

96 color + 37 b/w illus.

Pages

320

Dimensions

178x254x28

ISBN-13

9780691170725

Product ID

25005994

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