{"product_id":"reading-cy-twombly-poetry-in-paint-9780691170725","title":"Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book on the central importance of literary sources in the paintings of Cy Twombly\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. \u003ci\u003eReading Cy Twombly\u003c\/i\u003e poses both literary and art historical questions. How does poetic reference in largely abstract works affect their interpretation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Cy Twombly\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to focus specifically on the artist's use of poetry. Twombly's library formed an extension of his studio and he sometimes painted with a book open in front of him. Drawing on original research in an archive that includes his paint-stained and annotated books, Mary Jacobus's account--richly illustrated with more than 125 color and black-and-white images--unlocks an important aspect of Twombly's practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacobus shows that poetry was an indispensable source of reference throughout Twombly's career; as he said, he \"never really separated painting and literature.\" Among much else, she explores the influence of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson; Twombly's fondness for Greek pastoral poetry and Virgil's \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e; the inspiration of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e; and Twombly's love of Keats and his collaboration with Octavio Paz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwombly's art reveals both his distinctive relationship to poetry and his use of quotation to solve formal problems. A modern painter, he belongs in a critical tradition that goes back, by way of Roland Barthes, to Baudelaire. \u003ci\u003eReading Cy Twombly\u003c\/i\u003e opens up fascinating new readings of some of the most important paintings and drawings of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Jacobus\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of English at the University of Cambridge and Cornell University, and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She has written widely on visual art, Romanticism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. Her recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRomantic Things\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and Cambridge, UK.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327232119058,"sku":"9780691170725","price":58.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c1a10fd-d167-4994-b353-7a0ba096a061.jpg?v=1727711614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-cy-twombly-poetry-in-paint-9780691170725","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}