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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Cy Twombly – Treatise on the Veil
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year | 2017 |
| Cover | Cloth |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-300-24457-1 |
| Pages | 90 |
| Weight | 1280 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Michelle White, Isabelle Dervaux, Sarah Rothenberg |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Morgan Library & Museum, New York |
| Article ID | art-64281 |
A breathtaking exploration of one of Twombly’s largest paintings, the second version of his Treatise on the Veil.
One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil and, in a short period of focused creativity, produced a painting—Treatise on the Veil (Second Version)—on a single, 33-foot canvas along with more than a dozen related drawings.
This handsomely produced oversize book features three essays that examine these works in relation to Twombly’s oeuvre, contemporaneous explorations of time, the Orpheus myth, and a musical composition that Twombly cited as an influence. Large images and details bring us in close to Twombly’s magnificent meditation on time and space.
