Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
"The first book to explore the life of Cy Twombly, one of the mostimportant and influential artists of the Twentieth Century. Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history -- including his own. Shuttling between his stunning homes in Italy and the United States, where he perfected his room-size canvases, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. Upon first seeing Twombly's remarkable paintings, author Joshua Rivkin b...