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Jacobus, Mary.

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Olin Chats in the Stacks Book Talk: Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint, 2016-11-08

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Scope and Contents How does poetic reference in largely abstract works affect their interpretation? Mary Jacobus talks about her new book Reading Cy Twombly (Princeton University Press; August 30, 2016), an illuminating study that focuses on the artist’s use of poetry in his paintings and drawings, many of which include handwritten words and phrases—naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. The careful examination of Twombly’s scrawled quotations and verbal...
Dates: 2016-11-08

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