Mary Jacobus: Achilles’ Horses, Twombly’s War: Monuments, Mourning, and Mars

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English - June 03, 2011 08:46 - 1 hour - 1.16 GB Video - ★★★ - 1 rating
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The theme of war in paintings like Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam reveals how martial art becomes polemical in making the destructiveness of the past visible to contemporary viewers.

Professor Simon Goldhill responds, comparing Twombly's classicism with that of another modern artist, Andy Warhol.