Open AccessSay good-bye, Cy, to the Shores of Representation: Towards an Abstract Romanticism
Author(s) -
Forest Pyle
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
konturen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-3796
DOI - 10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3376
Subject(s) - romanticism , abstraction , poetry , impulse (physics) , representation (politics) , painting , art , art history , philosophy , literature , epistemology , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , politics
This essay is concerned with the ways in which the works of Cy Twombly, especially those paintings that refer to and draw their impetus from the poetry of Shelley and Keats, elaborate an impulse towards abstraction already latent in Romanticism itself.