About The Book
The catalogue for an exhibition at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, this volume features a selection of 100 photographic works by American artist Cy Twombly that span six decades, from the 1950s until his death in 2011.
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About The Artist
Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1947–49); the Art Students League, New York (1950–51); and Black Mountain College, North Carolina (1951–52). In the mid-1950s, following travels in Europe and Africa, he emerged as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward romantic symbolism, and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words.
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Specifics
Cy Twombly Photographs: Lyrical Variations. Texts by Yutaka Hashimoto; Yumiko Saito; Kiyoko Macda. Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2016. 192 pages, illustrated. Japanese/English edition.
