Naming the Gods: Cy Twombly’s Passionate Poiesis Luke Nikas Using a proprietary process for

Using a proprietary process for printing high-relief works they first developed in the 1970s

marking a return to the Mediterranean heritage that had nourished some of his most important stylistic changes in the past

eyewitness memory can change

musician and writer Richard Hell muses on these images’ connections to children’s drawings

Martin Clark

Naming the Gods: Cy Twombly’s Passionate Poiesis Luke Nikas Using a proprietary process forNaming the Gods: Cy Twomblys Passionate Poiesis is a monographic study by clinical psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst Gary D. Astrachan. The books analysis focuses on Twombly and his radically creative practice, framing it in relation to classical Greek mythology. Astrachan examines Twomblys work through the entwined figures of Orpheuslyre player, lover, and traveler to the underworldand Dionysos Bacchusgod of wine, ecstasy, and madness. These two