Research Catalog

Cy Twombly : Fifty days at Iliam

Title: Cy Twombly : Fifty days at Iliam / edited by Carlos Basualdo ; essays by Carlos Basualdo, Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, Olena Chervonik, and Nicola Del Roscio ; Annabelle d'Huart in conversation with Carlos Basualdo.
Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art, author.
Publication: Philadelphia, PA : The Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven, CT : published in association with Yale University Press, [2018]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JQG 18-1197	Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

Details

Additional Authors

Basualdo, Carlos, 1964-

Description

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 34 cm

Summary

"This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly's ten-painting masterpiece Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), the pinnacle of the artist's lifelong engagement with Homer's Iliad. In his introduction, Carlos Basualdo provides an account of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's acquisition of the paintings in 1989. Richard Fletcher's and Emily Greenwood's essays explore the intertextual dimension of Twombly's project and his adaptation of Homer's literary tropes as a basis for his visual metaphors. Olena Chervonik traces Twombly's engagement with the theme of the Trojan War, which first appeared in the artist's work in the early 1960s, a decade before he made Fifty Days at Iliam. French photographer Annabelle d'Huart is interviewed by Carlos Basualdo about the circumstances of her visit to Twombly's studio in 1978, and her resulting photographs capturing the moment the paintings were being completed. Finally, Nicola Del Roscio, president of the Cy Twombly Foundation, reminisces about the setting and atmosphere of Twombly's studio in Bassano in Teverina, in central Italy, where this painting cycle was created, and addresses the artist's working process and sources of inspiration"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JQG 18-1197

ISBN

9780300233124
0300233124

LCCN

2018030326

OCLC

1043212259

Author

Philadelphia Museum of Art, author.

Title

Cy Twombly : Fifty days at Iliam / edited by Carlos Basualdo ; essays by Carlos Basualdo, Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, Olena Chervonik, and Nicola Del Roscio ; Annabelle d'Huart in conversation with Carlos Basualdo.

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : The Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven, CT : published in association with Yale University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Basualdo, Carlos, 1964- editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQG 18-1197

View in Legacy Catalog