- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel; illustrated edition edition (May 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3829602456
- ISBN-13: 978-3829602457
- Product Dimensions: 33.1 x 25.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,480,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cy Twombly: New Sculptures 1998–2005
Primarily known for his paintings and drawings, Cy Twombly has been creating sculpture during his entire career. His characteristic use of poetic and mythic elements is also evident in this field. Out of “mundane” objects such as crates, broomsticks, paper napkins, mashers, stools, string and paper he composes white-painted sculptures. Retaining their everyday identity and materiality the constituent objects take on a condition oblivious to time and change and a life of their own. Fanciful, witty, and at times sarcastic, Twombly transforms his objects, lending them a mythic meaningfulness and a whole new beauty.
This publication is the catalog to an exhibition at Munich’s Alte Pinakothek in spring 2006 presenting 33 new sculptures created between 1998 and 2005.
Edited by Reinhold Baumstark and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann
Texts by Edward Albee, Giorgio Agamben, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and others
Cy Twombly, born in Lexington, VA, in 1928, has lived in Rome since 1957. His work includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photography.
Exhibition: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Spring 2006
May 2006, hardcover 9 1⁄2 x 13 1⁄3 in. / 24.5 x 34 cm, 128 pages 33 color plates, 60 color ill., ISBN 3829602359 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Twombly's continues to make poetry from almost nothing., Jun 13 2009
By Larry G. Wachsmuth "neoactive" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Cy Twombly: Sculptures 1992-2005 (Hardcover)
Cy Twombly continues to make lyrical poem art pieces from paint and found or discarded objects. The lyrical and poetical qualities that first attracted me to Twombly's painting and sculpture are still as robust today as when I first saw and studied a Twombly painting as an art student back in the early 70's. This over-sized monograph is filled with gorgeoous colored photos of his more recent work. Most of the work is reproduced on a full-page scale. This monograph is a must have for serious Twombly fans.
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Cy Twombly- New Sculptures 1992 - 2005, July 26 2007
By C. L. Boswijk "christine boswijk" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cy Twombly: Sculptures 1992-2005 (Hardcover)
This is an execallent publication with good essays and images , giving an in depth view of these poignant works and the pulse behind them, and of the Artist Cy Twombly who has captured the human spirit in the most eloquent way possible .I am thrilled to have this book, another to my collection from Amazon.
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An unusual Twombly, April 17 2007
By Claude Reich - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Cy Twombly: Sculptures 1992-2005 (Hardcover)
A beautiful book on an interesting recent development in Cy Twombly's career, this is a high-quality publication as far as the illustrations of the works are concerned and it was published by the same German publisher who oversaw the magnificent 5-volume catalogue raisonné of the paintings and the single-volume catalogue raisonné of the sculptures. Even though his earliest known sculptures date back to the late fifties, he really concentrated on the medium after 1990, producing a serene body of works marked by a thick white impasto covering common objects, found here and there, mounted together to form elegant and sometimes majestic sculptures. A good supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the sculptures (which stops in 1995). My only criticism would be on the text, which sometimes tends to be a bit too hagiographic; the admiration professed by the authors towards the artist seems almost religious, however,like any great artist, Twombly has produced masterpieces, but also some minor works...
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