Time-Lines: Rilke and Twombly on the Nile
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Jacobus, Mary
Date published
2008
Abstract
Cy Twombly’s remark that ‘lines have a great effect on painting’ resonates not only with his graphic practice but with his relation to poetry. The importance of the modern German poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Twombly includes the figure of the Orphic poet and their shared interest in the ancient River Nile. Twombly’s Egyptian series, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000, represents a late flowering of his remarkable graphic inventiveness.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
10
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright