Cy Twombly: New Sculptures 1992-2005 [Hardcover]

Giorgio Agamben (Author), Edward Albee (Author), Reinhold Baumstark (Author), Carla Schulz-Hoffmann (Author), Jochen Littkemann (Photographer)

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Publication Date: September 30, 2006

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

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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About the Author

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

33 color plates, 60 color illus. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96144 pages
• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh (September 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3829602456
• ISBN-13: 978-3829602457
• Product Dimensions: 13 x 9.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,251,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Twombly's continues to make poetry from almost nothing., June 13, 2009

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This review is from: Cy Twombly: New 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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cy Twombly- New Sculptures 1992 - 2005, July 26, 2007

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This review is from: Cy Twombly: New 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 .
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4.0 out of 5 stars An unusual Twombly, April 17, 2007

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This review is from: Cy Twombly: New 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...