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Cy Twombly: "Wilder Shores of Love" 1985

 

 "There is a frequent adoption of an explicitly female voice in Twombly's art, be it Sappho's poetry or Lesley Blanch's "The Wilder Shores of Love", a book which treats the theme of Western women who succeeded in living, often en travesti, in the Middle East." (Art in America by Brooks Adams)