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Summary: A Fitting Homage to One of the Unique Artists of Our Time
Review: CY TWOMBLY is honored in this very beautifuly designed and executed retrospective book. Twombly has been incredibly consistent throughout his career showing us the subtle visual line between the innocence of the child's untutored mark and the angst-ridden metaphysical searching for meaning that his canvases can evoke. Dismissed for a time as an artist who laughed as he displayed his large scribble paintings, Twombly has taken his place among the true greats of 20th Century art. And much of this stature is confidently examined and explained in Kirk Varnedoe's illuminating essay. Twombly's close relationship with Robert Rauschenberg and the influences of Giacometti and Schwitters, Motherwell and Kline, and even dancer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage are explored with candor and intelligence! His life is sensitively followed and his paintings are given the honor they deserve by placing them with a great deal of negative space in this volume on fine paper and design. The book, another catalogue for a 1995 exhibition at MOMA, is an artwork in and of itself. An elegant and lasting memoir of a fine artist.
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Summary: A Fitting Homage to One of the Unique Artists of Our Time
Review: CY TWOMBLY is honored in this very beautifuly designed and executed retrospective book. Twombly has been incredibly consistent throughout his career showing us the subtle visual line between the innocence of the child's untutored mark and the angst-ridden metaphysical searching for meaning that his canvases can evoke. Dismissed for a time as an artist who laughed as he displayed his large scribble paintings, Twombly has taken his place among the true greats of 20th Century art. And much of this stature is confidently examined and explained in Kirk Varnedoe's illuminating essay. Twombly's close relationship with Robert Rauschenberg and the influences of Giacometti and Schwitters, Motherwell and Kline, and even dancer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage are explored with candor and intelligence! His life is sensitively followed and his paintings are given the honor they deserve by placing them with a great deal of negative space in this volume on fine paper and design. The book, another catalogue for a 1995 exhibition at MOMA, is an artwork in and of itself. An elegant and lasting memoir of a fine artist.
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Summary: Best value of Cy Twombly books
Review: Hello, Twombly lovers!
I am a huge twombly admirer & have more than 20 twombly books. This one is the best value IMHO. Everythings excellent. print & photo quality, amount of works & its selection, information & writing...
Of course I,myself regard Catalogue Raisonne as the best but cost too much to get that(also hard to find- I bought mine while I was traveling abroad). For the fans of twombly like me, I recommend these and Harald Szeemann's book(Mine is german pressed-not sure about american version.) strongly which also have great works not shown on other books. And I was quite happy when the 50 years of drawing book came out while ago but I definitely felt the french version's better in a sense of printing quality(beautiful...) while I couldn't read French - contents not same with american version.(frustrated but still satisfied with printing quality) Keep beeing happy through Mr. Twombly's aesthetic serenade. P.S) Oh! Get the hardcover version if you can.(Far better than paperback version. also great feeling the carmine color surface inside the mylar cover... too picky? :)
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Summary: Best value of Cy Twombly books
Review: Hello, Twombly lovers!
I am a huge twombly admirer & have more than 20 twombly books. This one is the best value IMHO. Everythings excellent. print & photo quality, amount of works & its selection, information & writing...
Of course I,myself regard Catalogue Raisonne as the best but cost too much to get that(also hard to find- I bought mine while I was traveling abroad). For the fans of twombly like me, I recommend these and Harald Szeemann's book(Mine is german pressed-not sure about american version.) strongly which also have great works not shown on other books. And I was quite happy when the 50 years of drawing book came out while ago but I definitely felt the french version's better in a sense of printing quality(beautiful...) while I couldn't read French - contents not same with american version.(frustrated but still satisfied with printing quality) Keep beeing happy through Mr. Twombly's aesthetic serenade. P.S) Oh! Get the hardcover version if you can.(Far better than paperback version. also great feeling the carmine color surface inside the mylar cover... too picky? :)
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Summary: twombly is essential
Review: strings? pasta? what does that have to do with anything. despite the naysayers, as an artist myself i look to twombly to remind me that art isn't all the crap that people make it out to be, but art is raw and soulspeech. the person who thinks that twombly is bogus hasn't experienced aesthetic and probably has never created. this book isn't for bathroom reading.
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Summary: The best available (so far)
Review: This book is (was) the best twombly monograph available. If you can lay hands on it, don't hesitate. Although Twombly's work is best experienced "live", this book does a pretty fine job in "translating" the subtle nuances of the canvases. Another excellent book is the monograph published years ago in France by the Pompidou centre.
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Summary: The best available (so far)
Review: This book is (was) the best twombly monograph available. If you can lay hands on it, don't hesitate. Although Twombly's work is best experienced "live", this book does a pretty fine job in "translating" the subtle nuances of the canvases. Another excellent book is the monograph published years ago in France by the Pompidou centre.
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