
Before the Borderless
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Winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Dean Rader reaches beyond artistic description to engage Twombly's work in conversation.
In 2018, just a few weeks after his father's death, Dean Rader made a pilgrimage to the Gagosian Gallery in New York to see a retrospective of Cy Twombly's work, In Beauty It is Finished: Drawings 1951-2008. The exhibit led to a poem that would become the genesis of this book ? from loss and fear to regret and beauty, Before the Borderless: The Cy Twombly Cycle reaches for the embodiment of emotion and the aesthetics of possibility.
Through a range of experimental forms, including a series of octets, Rader writes to decode the gestures and energies in Twombly's drawings and paintings. He reaches past observation and admiration to create a game of echolocation, reflecting Twombly's infinite scrawls as ?saddle stitch, spaghetti curl, white whirl.? Even as Rader searches for proximity, examining the gaps between symbols and what they signify, the collection remains unmistakably autobiographical. From the wheatfields of his Western Oklahoma upbringing to questions of loss?first his father and then his mother, who passed only weeks after Rader finished the manuscript for this book?the poems in Before the Borderless are both elegy and prayer, for Rader's parents, for his children, for the world.
Blurring the distinction between canvas and page, Twombly's work often includes lines of poetry from many of the authors who shaped Rader's work ? John Keats, Sappho, Federico García Lorca, and Rainer Maria Rilke. As Rader's poems are paired with 50 color images of Twombly's paintings and drawings, the line between looking and reading is blurred. Before the Borderless awakens in the space between language and silence to pose provocative questions about art and its power to heal.
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Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (1928-2011) was was an American painter, sculptor and photographer born in Lexington, Virginia. From 1948 to 1952, he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Washington and Lee University, Lexington; the Art Students League, New York; and, Black Mountain College in North Carolina. His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of neutral colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism." Twombly often quoted poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories, in his works. Permanent collections of Twombly's art can be found in modern art museums globally, including the Menil Collection in Houston, the Tate Modern in London, New York's Museum of Modern Art and Munich's Museum Brandhorst. He was commissioned for a ceiling at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and died on July 5, 2011 in Rome.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Note to the Reader
- Contents
- I
- Troubled by Thoughts about Infinity and Oblivion, I Exit the Twombly Retrospective at Dusk and Walk the High Line with the Ghost of My Father
- In Which Twombly and Rader Consider the Letter
- Meditation on Comprehension
- Meditation on Absolution
- System
- Meditation on Instruction
- Meditation on Circulation
- Sonnet: The Inscrutability of Influence
- Unending Octet
- Meditation on Revision
- Meditation on Motion
- Studies for Excursus
- Elegies (Variations)
- II
- Meditation on Mimesis
- The Fire That Consumes All before It
- Meditation on Communication
- Letter of Resignation
- III
- Octet
- Meditation on Inspiration
- Meditation on Revolution
- Self-Portrait in the Dark
- This Is No Time for Poetry,
- Meditation on Direction
- Unfinished Unending Journey
- Meditation on Remembering
- Unfinished Sonnet
- Eternal Return
- Meditation on Creation
- In Advance of All Parting
- Meditation on Inscription
- Once Again in Thought about Rilke, Twombly's Orpheus Paintings, and Fatherhood, I Consider the Inevitability of Creation and Loss
- IV
- Pentimento
- Notes
- Art Credits
- About the Author
- Books by Dean Rader
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
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