Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam Hardcover Illustrated Yale University Press 2018

by Carlos Basualdo

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Excellent condition. Hardcover art book titled 'Fifty Days at Iliam' by Cy Twombly. This publication is authored by Carlos Basualdo and published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press. The ISBN is 978-0-300-23312-4. Essays by Carlos Basualdo, Olena Chervonik, Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, and Nicola Del Roscio This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly’s masterpiece Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), a cycle of ten paintings based on Alexander Pope’s eighteenth-century translation of Homer’s Iliad. Essays by a team of 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 Images of the canvases and related drawings and sculptures are joined by previously unpublished photographs showing Fifty Days at Iliam in the artist's studio at the time of the paintings’ completion. Measures 12 × 13 inches and contains 168 pages. Weighs roughly 4.5 pounds

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2018
• Condition: Fine

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