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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300190115

ISBN-139780300190113

eBay Product ID (ePID)175788908

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NameCy Twombly's Things

LanguageEnglish

SubjectSculpture & Installation, Individual Artists / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, Individual Artists / Monographs

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

AuthorKate Nesin

Subject AreaArt

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight38 Oz

Item Length1 in

Item Width0.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2013-042766

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"With this deeper understanding of Twombly's sculptures and casts, his place in the pantheon of "artists' artists" grows more secure."-- Publishers Weekly, "With this deeper understanding of Twombly's sculptures and casts, his place in the pantheon of "artists' artists" grows more secure."- Publishers Weekly, "Nesin has valuably opened up this complex area of investigation and her publication reveals a detailed level of research alongside attractively reproduced colour illustrations. To consider the full title of the book, the rubric of 'things', despite its multiplicity and vagueness, holds together a range of specificities that prompts interpretations and, ultimately, offers a useful label for Twombly's sculptures."--Matthew Cheale, Burlington June 2017

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal730.92

SynopsisCy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or plastered over with diverse coatings of white. Across decades, Twombly thus developed a singular, strikingly consistent body of work, despite the shifting status of sculpture during his lifetime. In this revelatory monograph, Kate Nesin first establishes, then evaluates the artist's long engagement with the historical and contemporary limits of sculpture, both as medium and as word. While others have described Twombly's three-dimensional works as timeless, transcendent, and poetic, Nesin complicates our sense of their so-called poetry, focusing on the prosaic, conspicuously material operations of these sculptural "things," and emphasizing the inherent difficulties as well as possibilities of the language used to characterize them. Through close readings of individual works and in-depth analyses of certain guiding concerns, such as surface, naming, gaps, and repetitions, she illuminates Twombly's remarkable sculptural practice.

LC Classification NumberNB237.T88N47 2014