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    "description": "<b><b>**A <i>New York Times</i> Editors Choice**</b></b> <br /><b>\"The most substantive biography of the artist to date...propulsive, positive and persuasive.\"&mdash;Holland Cotter,<i> New York Times Book Review</i></b> <br /><b>**PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist**</b> <br /><b><br /></b> <b>**A Marfield Prize Finalist**</b><br />Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history&mdash;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.&#160;<br />Upon first seeing Twombly&rsquo;s remarkable paintings, writer Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist, and began chasing every lead, big or small&mdash;anything that might illuminate those works, or who Twombly really was.&#160;<br />Now, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly&rsquo;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.<br />Including previously unpublished photographs, <i>Chalk </i>presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we&rsquo;ve ever encountered, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we&rsquo;ve ever known.",
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