Simmons, William Sherwin(University of Oregon, 2014)
This essay considers continuities between the impetus towards abstraction within Jugendstil and Expressionism. Both Hermann Obrist and Franz Marc sought through empathy to intuit and image abstract forces at work within ...
Beginning with an analysis of certain tone-row partitions in Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, this article examines the ways in which the composer dramatized the conflict between the two Biblical brothers by setting ...
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 ...
Following a studied detour through C. G. Jung, Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and particularly R. M. Rilke, this essay tracks the lineage along which Cy Twombly, like a child, is "drawn to paint."