CY TWOMBLY Image, Text, Paratext
THIERRY GREUB (ED.) CY TWOMBLY Image, Text, Paratext MORPHOMATA The artworks of the US artist Cy Twombly (1928–2011) are considered to be hermetic and inaccessible. Pencil scribblings, explosions of paint, tumbling lines, over- lapping layers of color, and inscriptions, geometrical figures, numerals, rows of numbers, words, fragments of quotations, and enigmatic work-titles present very special challenges to both researchers and viewers. In the interdisciplinary and transcultural research meth- od of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, a conference was held in June 2012 that brought art historians together with renowned scholars of Egyptology, Archaeology, German, Greek, English, Japanese, and the Romance languages, i.e. all the fields and cultural spheres that were a source of inspiration for the œuvre of Cy Twombly. While these scholars inquire into the relation between title, work, and inscribed quotations, leading represen- tatives of research on Twombly focus on the visual lan- guage and scriptural-imagistic quality of Cy Twombly’s work. Through comprehensive interpretations of famous single works and groups in all the artistic media employed by Twombly, the volume’s cross-disciplinary view opens up a route into the associative-referential visual language of Cy Twombly. THIERRY GREUB (ED.) – CY TWOMBLY MORPHOMATA EDITED BY GÜNTER BLAMBERGER AND DIETRICH BOSCHUNG VOLUME 37 EDITED BY THIERRY GREUB CY TWOMBLY Image, Text, Paratext WILHELM FINK English edition translated from the German original: Cy Twombly. Bild, Text, Paratext (Morphomata, vol. 13). Paderborn 2014 (based on a conference held at the University of Cologne, 13–15 June 2012, by Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies) Translated by Orla Mulholland, Daniel Mufson, Ehren Fordyce, and Timothy Murray Translated and printed with the generous support of the Cy Twombly Founda tion, Rome / New York and the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Gaeta unter dem Förderkennzeichen 01UK1505.
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