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Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951 -1999

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This world premiere is an aesthetic sensation. Since his student days in the early 50s, American painter and sculptor Cy Twombly, one of the greatest artists alive today, has concerned himself with photography. In this volume, he presents his photographic work of 50 years to the public for the first time ever. Taking up 19th-century Pictorialist traditions, Twombly's photographs are, just like his paintings, drawings and sculptures, documents of a profound personal poetry. Studio shots, details of his own statuary, sculptures from his collection, romantic landscapes, flowers, and portraits of friends constitute the cosmos of his photographic oeuvre. Printed with matte colors on matte paper, a special "dryprint" process lends these images a velvety, porous, almost grainy quality. On the stage of today's art, they touch long-lost chords. Resonant of the concepts of fin de siecle art they are, yet, thoroughly contemporary in their minimalism, creating an aesthetic vision by the commonest means.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Schirmer Mosel

Release: September 25, 2004

ISBN: 382960078X

ISBN 13: 9783829600781

Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951 -1999

4/5 ( ratings)

This world premiere is an aesthetic sensation. Since his student days in the early 50s, American painter and sculptor Cy Twombly, one of the greatest artists alive today, has concerned himself with photography. In this volume, he presents his photographic work of 50 years to the public for the first time ever. Taking up 19th-century Pictorialist traditions, Twombly's photographs are, just like his paintings, drawings and sculptures, documents of a profound personal poetry. Studio shots, details of his own statuary, sculptures from his collection, romantic landscapes, flowers, and portraits of friends constitute the cosmos of his photographic oeuvre. Printed with matte colors on matte paper, a special "dryprint" process lends these images a velvety, porous, almost grainy quality. On the stage of today's art, they touch long-lost chords. Resonant of the concepts of fin de siecle art they are, yet, thoroughly contemporary in their minimalism, creating an aesthetic vision by the commonest means.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Schirmer Mosel

Release: September 25, 2004

ISBN: 382960078X

ISBN 13: 9783829600781

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