Say good-bye, Cy, to the Shores of Representation: Towards an Abstract Romanticism

Authors

  • Forest Pyle

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3376

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Forest Pyle

Forest Pyle is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oregon. His work explores the problems and possibilities posed by aesthetic experience, particularly in the context of Romantic and post-Romantic literature. His first book, The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism, examines the ideological workings and implications of the Romantic concept of the imagination from Wordsworth and Coleridge through George Eliot. He has recently published Art's Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism (Fordham, 2014).

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Published

2014-03-22

How to Cite

Pyle, F. (2014). Say good-bye, Cy, to the Shores of Representation: Towards an Abstract Romanticism. Konturen, 5, 85–104. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3376

Issue

Vol. 5 (2014): Abstraction and Materiality in the Arts, Literature, and Music

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Articles