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Frontispiece: Detail from Cy Twombly, The Rose (Part I), 2008. Gaeta. Acrylic on four wooden panels, 99¼ × 291⅜ in. (252 × 740 cm). Gagosian Gallery. © Cy Twombly Foundation. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
Page xii: “Gaeta: A Photo Essay.” Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York.
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Names: Jacobus, Mary, author.
Title: Reading Cy Twombly : poetry in paint / Mary Jacobus.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038608 | ISBN 9780691170725 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Twombly, Cy, 1928–2011—Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: LCC ND237.T87 J33 2016 | DDC 709.2—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015038608
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