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Between the Lines by Sean Scully (Hardback)
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9781908970565
Published:
07 Jan 2021
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
536 pages
Dimensions:
258x265x51mm
Weight:
2.212kgs
Author:
A lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced collection of writings on one of today's most important and best-loved abstract painters, covering the first three decades of the career
Sean Scully is one of the most important and celebrated painters of our age. For half a century, he has explored with unwavering determination the possibilities of the stripe, band, and block as abstract forms. With seemingly limitless invention, he has reconciled the aesthetic of pure minimalism with a more human and expressive approach in a quest to make meaning and content the central preoccupation of painting. In his words, he makes 'abstract painting metaphorical, physical, sensual, emotional, and, above all, relational'. In the process, he has revealed how something so simple - a mark on a surface - can communicate so much feeling and lived experience. As Scully himself has remarked, the stripe is particularly receptive to interpretation, and from the very beginning his work has received the attention of commentators who have been drawn by its seductive sensuality and constant inventiveness.
This book collates the writings of some fifty international critics, curators, philosophers, and historians who have sought, from their own vantage points, to chart the unique and single-minded course that Scully followed in the first three decades of his career. Reflecting the astonishing variety of his compositions, each one identifies novel and different aspects in the work and discovers something new and fresh to say as it develops in unexpected and intriguing ways. Lavishly illustrated with all of Scully's major paintings from the late 1960s to 1999, and with dozens of installation views, behind-the-scenes studio shots, and portraits of the artist, many published here for the first time, this collection provides a concise and accessible account of the work of a painter who more than any other has demonstrated the poetic qualities of abstraction.
This book collates the writings of some fifty international critics, curators, philosophers, and historians who have sought, from their own vantage points, to chart the unique and single-minded course that Scully followed in the first three decades of his career. Reflecting the astonishing variety of his compositions, each one identifies novel and different aspects in the work and discovers something new and fresh to say as it develops in unexpected and intriguing ways. Lavishly illustrated with all of Scully's major paintings from the late 1960s to 1999, and with dozens of installation views, behind-the-scenes studio shots, and portraits of the artist, many published here for the first time, this collection provides a concise and accessible account of the work of a painter who more than any other has demonstrated the poetic qualities of abstraction.
About the Author: Faye Fleming is Projects Director at the Sean Scully Studio. Oscar Humphries is a fine art and design dealer and journalist. Martin Gayford is art critic for the Spectator and has held similar posts with the Sunday Telegraph and Bloomberg News. He is the acclaimed author of Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters; Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney; The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations; Michelangelo: His Epic Life; The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles; and Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter. He is also the co-author with David Hockney of A History of Pictures: From Cave to Computer Screen, and with Philippe de Montebello of Rendez-Vous with Art. He is also the author of Gillian Ayres, published by Art / Books in 2017.
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