{"title":"Joshua Rivkin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"chalk-book-joshua-rivkin-9781612198545","title":"Chalk","description":"\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors Choice**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"The most substantive biography of the artist to date...propulsive, positive and persuasive.\"-Holland Cotter, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e**PEN \/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e**A Marfield Prize Finalist**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history-including his own. Shuttling between 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Upon first seeing Twombly's remarkable paintings, writer Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist, and began chasing every lead, big or small-anything that might illuminate those works, or who Twombly really was.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly's life, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Including previously unpublished photographs, \u003ci\u003eChalk\u003c\/i\u003e presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we've ever encountered, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we've ever known.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563995341073,"sku":"GOR013035015","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737701851409,"sku":"NGR9781612198545","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51845846663441,"sku":"CIN1612198546G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52447569281297,"sku":"GOR013172399","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52831731974417,"sku":"GOR014633991","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1612198546.jpg?v=1751120208"},{"product_id":"chalk-book-joshua-rivkin-9781612197180","title":"Chalk","description":"Chalk follows the life and career of the great American painter Cy Twombly, from his life as a young painter, to his expatriate years in Italy; his obsession with myths and history, to his struggle for recognition. Twombly carefully managed his own image, writing almost nothing about his life and work, and giving only a handful of interviews. Through years of scholarship and archival research, first-person interviews, and a sensitive eye to Twombly's art, Joshua Rivkin separates the myth from the reality to bring to life a more complicated and fascinating Twombly than we've ever known.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50030133051665,"sku":"GOR011785495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50933091008785,"sku":"CIN1612197183G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53599286755601,"sku":"CIN1612197183VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1612197183.jpg?v=1751120206"},{"product_id":"suitor-book-joshua-rivkin-9781597098588","title":"Suitor","description":"At the heart of Joshua Rivkin’s debut collection Suitor is a profound wrestling with desire, history, and the big questions of how we make and perform a self in the world. In conversation with the confessional tradition, Suitor begins with a sequence of poems about a mother’s boyfriends and lovers, and how these relationships inform the speaker’s own understanding about eros and masculinity. At the center of the book is a lyric essay, “The Haber Problem,” that moves beyond the self and personal history to retell the story of the scientist Fritz Haber. Later sequences and poems reflect on the past with erotic directness, longing, and lyric intensity. With grace and honesty, the poems of Suitor ask what it means to be a suitor in the fullest sense—to follow, to pursue, to chase the inexplicable hunger at the heart of desire.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393812467985,"sku":"CIN1597098582G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52675515351313,"sku":"NLS9781597098588","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1597098582.jpg?v=1751309613"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-joshua-rivkin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}