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The Pastoral Stain
2016
Overview
Adorno—whose account of the lyric owes much to its German Romantic origins—offers a point of entry into the convergence of past and present in a series of pastoral works by the twentieth-century American artist Cy Twombly.² A resident in Rome since the late 1950s, Twombly is best known for his scribbled, written-on canvases and a poetic lexicon that includes Greek bucolic poetry, English Romanticism, and the modernist European lyric. In 1976, he painted and drew a series of pastoral works on paper:Untitled (Thyrsis’ Lament for Daphnis)(1976),Idilli(inscribed with the words, “I am Thyrsis of Aetna
