Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970

by Michelle White (Author), Michelle White (Author), Isabelle Dervaux (Author), Sarah Rothenberg (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2019

  $37.47

  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.