Cy Twombly Book order

Das Werk von Cy Twombly ist eines der herausragendsten künstlerischen uvres des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Der letzte Band des Catalogue Raisonné präsentiert fast 80 unpublizierte Werke sowie 35 unvollendete Stücke aus seiner Schaffenszeit von 1960 bis 2006.

Cy Twombly (1928–2011) hat neben seinen Zeichnungen, Gemälden, Skulpturen und Photographien, für die er mittlerweile weltberühmt ist, auch ein stattliches druckgraphisches Werk hinterlassen. Bereits 1984 hat der Berliner Kunstschriftsteller und Twombly-Spezialist Heiner Bastian einen Catalogue Raisonné der Druckgraphik des Künstlers erarbeitet. Diese neue Ausgabe ist nun um die bis zu Twomblys Tod entstandenen Arbeiten ergänzt und wurde auf den neuesten Erkenntnisstand gebracht. Das graphische Werk von Cy Twombly zeichnet sich durch eine besondere Vielfalt der angewandten graphischen Techniken aus. Neben Monotypien, Radierungen, Lithographien und Siebdrucken erprobte der Künstler seine Meisterschaft auch an Offset-Lithographien und der Kombination verschiedener Druck- und Reproduktionstechniken. Der in englischer Sprache abgefasste wissenschaftliche Katalogteil umfasst 96 Werke, das erste aus dem Jahr 1952 und das letzte aus dem Jahr 2008. Sämtliche Werke sind in Farbe abgebildet. Sie machen das Verzeichnis zu einem unverzichtbaren Werkzeug für Sammler, Museen, Kunsthändler und Twombly-Fans. Ein Essay in deutscher und englischer Sprachversion von Heiner Bastian über das Werk Cy Twomblys leitet das Verzeichnis ein. Der von großer Sachkenntnis getragene Band erscheint mit einer Förderung der Cy Twombly Foundation, New York.

Vol. 8 of the Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné completes the edition of the artist's graphic works. Starting with extraordinary pencil drawings at Black Mountain College, Twombly's artistic activities evolved into an enormous and unparalleled œuvre that also includes paintings, sculptures, and photographs. His graphic work, though, continued to be the primal ground of his creativity that constitutes one of the essential contributions to the human condition in the 20th century.

The book explores Cy Twombly's unique artistic journey, highlighting his distinctive nervous line work that set him apart in the Abstract Expressionism movement of the 50s and 60s. Initially perceived as a blend of graffiti and automatic writing, his graphic notes evolved into expansive canvases that express a range of emotional states. This second volume of Twombly's catalogue raisonné covers his prolific output from 1970 to 2011, showcasing the development of his conceptual art and the psychological depth of his work.

Vol. 7 of the Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings covers the years 1980 to 1989, when the artist moved his main residence to Gaeta, Italy. During these years, places, landscapes, and plants became the principal subjects of his art and his renown matured to worldwide fame.

Volume 6 covers the years 1972 to 1979, when Cy Twombly made several attempts to vigorously widen his artistic work. He completed his 24 Short Pieces followed by the series Natural History I and Natural History II. In both series he developed a kind of collage technique using postcards, found reproductions, and photographs—a stylistic device he integrated in his drawings and other works on paper, foreshadowing the future body of his own photographic work. In 1979 he staged the first exhibition of his sculptures premiering in Naples. Simultaneously he presented a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York and made a first attempt of a catalogue raisonné of drawings with Yvon Lambert in Paris. The ambitious project, for which Roland Barthes wrote an essay, was abandoned after two volumes and was resumed several years later by the present Schirmer/Mosel edition.

Cy Twombly is undoubtedly the most sensitive mind among the greats of contemporary art. His work finds its most personal expression in small, intimately sized drawings which he has from the very outset produced as of accompaniments to his paintings: they not only reflect all the stages in the development of his painterly oeuvre but also transcend it. Our book now available as a softcover reprint covers the major retrospective which the Hermitage organized to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the City of St. Petersburg. The eighty-four drawings, most of them from the artist's own collection, date from between 1953 and 2002 and thus embrace his entire oeuvre, from the early monotypes to the major mythological cycles of later years. This unique retrospective on fifty years of his marvelous drawings fully reveals just how fascinating Twombly's aesthetic approach is and attests to his great talent for invention.

This elegant small volume presents 35 of Cy Twombly’s most impressive photographs taken between 1944 and 2006. Featuring the artist’s favorite sites, themes, and motifs – his early New York Fulton Street studio; his beloved peonies; interiors; landscapes; details of his own sculptures and paintings – it offers a representative insight into his poetic and sensuous photographic work fascinating by its particular aesthetics and the “silent presence” it exudes.