Cy Twombly : fifty days at Iliam
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Cy Twombly : fifty days at Iliam
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, c2018
Available at 3 libraries
Note
Other author: Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, Olena Chervonik, and Nicola Del Roscio
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165)
Contents of Works
- Achilles in Philadelphia : Fifty Days at Iliam in the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Carlos Basualdo
- Shades of Night : Installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Fifty Days at Iliam : Installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Three Lessons at Twombly's Academy / Richard Fletcher
- Adapting Homer via Pope / Emily Greenwood
- Study for the Presence of a Myth / Olena Chervonik
- Plates : Shades of Night
- Fifty Days at Iliam
- In the Warm Daylight / Annabelle d'Huart in Conversation with Carlos Basualdo
- Cy Twombly and the Making of Fifty Days at Iliam / Nicola Del Roscio
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly's masterpiece Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), a series of ten paintings based on Alexander Pope's 18th-century translation of Homer's Iliad. Essays by a team of both art historians and scholars of Greco-Roman studies explore topics including the paintings' literary and cultural references to antiquity and Twombly's broader engagement with the theme of the Trojan War, which first appeared in his work in the early 1960s and was a subject to which he would return throughout his career. Firsthand accounts of the artist at work complement the essays. Images of the canvases and related drawings and sculptures are joined by previously unpublished photographs showing Fifty Days at Iliam in the artist's studio at the time of their completion.
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by "Nielsen BookData"