While Cy Twombly was still a student, his inspiring work attracted the attention of art critics and art historians, and also prompted poets, philosophers, essayists, and fellow artists to write about him. In the present volume, long-time collaborator Nicola Del Roscio brings together a total of 43 contemporary commentaries on Twombly in the form of poems, exhibition reviews, letters, philosophical essays, and discussions of art history, dating from 1951 (the year of his first solo show) through to the present. The collection commences with an early piece by American poet Charles Olson and is followed by a panoply of different literary voices, including Roland Barthes, Heiner Bastian, Gottfried Boehm, Arthur C. Danto, Max Kozloff, Robert Motherwell, Frank O'Hara, Octavio Paz, Pierre Restany, Harald Szeemann, and Kirk Varnedoe.
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Francesco Clemente was born in Naples, Italy, in 1952. After studying classical languages, literature and architecture, he turned to art in the 1970s. Although he has spent a great deal of time since the early 1970s living and working in India, he has made New York City his primary residence since 1981. Clemente has been the subject of many major solo exhibitions, including several international traveling retrospectives. He is famed for his many collaborations--with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, and poets like Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Rene Ricard.
Born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia, Twombly studied art at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Students' League, New York and Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In the mid-1950s, following travels in Europe and Africa, Twombly emerged as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1959, Twombly settled permanently in Rome. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions internationally and has been the subject of major retrospectives in both Europe and America.
"Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and raised in Massachusetts. After service in the Navy he studied music at Harvard and the University of Michigan, and then promptly moved to New York City. ""I can't even enjoy a blade of grass,"" he once wrote ""unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life."" From 1952 until his death in 1966 (he was run over by a dune buggy on Fire Island), O'Hara was on the staff at The Museum of Modern Art. He was active in the art scene (most notably with the Abstract Expressionist painters), continued as a playwright and critic, and was the epicenter of a circle of poets that came to be called the ""New York School."" These poets included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, who derived inspiration from paintings by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and others."
Kirk Varnedoe, formerly chief curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is professor of historical studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
Dore Ashton has experience as an art critic, teacher and author. She has written many books, including About Rothko, The Black Rainbow: The Work of Fernando de Szyzslo, and A Fable of Modern Art.
Robert Pincus-Witten is an art historian, critic and professor emeritus at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. An anthology of his essays, Postminimalism (1977), came to name a new style of art; other collections of his essays are Entries (Maximalism)(1983) and Eye to Eye, Twenty Years of Art Criticism (1984). He is a director of L&M Arts, New York.
Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosphy at Columbia University in New York and the art critic for The Nation. He is widely published in the fields of both art criticism and philosophy.
Born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia, Twombly studied art at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Students' League, New York and Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In the mid-1950s, following travels in Europe and Africa, Twombly emerged as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1959, Twombly settled permanently in Rome. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions internationally and has been the subject of major retrospectives in both Europe and America.
"Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and raised in Massachusetts. After service in the Navy he studied music at Harvard and the University of Michigan, and then promptly moved to New York City. ""I can't even enjoy a blade of grass,"" he once wrote ""unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life."" From 1952 until his death in 1966 (he was run over by a dune buggy on Fire Island), O'Hara was on the staff at The Museum of Modern Art. He was active in the art scene (most notably with the Abstract Expressionist painters), continued as a playwright and critic, and was the epicenter of a circle of poets that came to be called the ""New York School."" These poets included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, who derived inspiration from paintings by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and others."
Kirk Varnedoe, formerly chief curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is professor of historical studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
Dore Ashton has experience as an art critic, teacher and author. She has written many books, including About Rothko, The Black Rainbow: The Work of Fernando de Szyzslo, and A Fable of Modern Art.
Robert Pincus-Witten is an art historian, critic and professor emeritus at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. An anthology of his essays, Postminimalism (1977), came to name a new style of art; other collections of his essays are Entries (Maximalism)(1983) and Eye to Eye, Twenty Years of Art Criticism (1984). He is a director of L&M Arts, New York.
Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosphy at Columbia University in New York and the art critic for The Nation. He is widely published in the fields of both art criticism and philosophy.
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