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Enigmatic Epistolarity: Twombly's Letter of Resignation
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 3, September 2017
- pp. 73-89
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a668729
- Article
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Looking at first merely like 38 scribbled pages, Cy Twombly's Letter of Resignation shows how writing's essence, as Roland Barthes argues, is most evident when it is illegible. The series illuminates letter-writing as a process; writing's relation to drawing; and the way the hand's traces reveal the emotions that impelled it.