The painting makes me want to run naked: Cy Twombly’s Aesthetics of Emotion
A Lecture by Thierry Greub at W&L University, Lexington
Installation view of Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994. The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the Artist. © Menil Foundation, Inc. Photo: Paul Hester
The painting makes me want to run naked: Cy Twombly’s Aesthetics of Emotion
October 16, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Leyburn Library’s Northen Auditorium, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
In this lecture, art historian Thierry Greub, author of the recently published six-volume catalogue Cy Twombly: Inscriptions, will explore the physical and emotional responses to Cy Twombly’s works.
One of the reasons of Greub’s visit to W&L University is to conduct research on Lexington native Twombly, who attended W&L during the 1949–50 academic year and kept a studio in Lexington until his death in 2011, and whose father was a coach and athletic director at W&L. Greub is interested in learning more about Twombly’s Lexington roots, and has collaborated with W&L’s Special Collections & Archives Department in this ongoing research.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For further information:
Washington and Lee University, Lexington
my.wlu.edu
