Sean Scully: Landlines and Other Recent Works

Sean Scully: Landlines and Other Recent Works
Author: Rudi Fuchs
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780957007086

A catalogue of the recent exhibition featuring Scully's 'Landline' paintings, which address the artist's preoccupation with the horizon. Sean Scully is one of the most important abstract artists of our time. His new publication, Landlines and other recent works, accompanies the artist's major solo exhibition at De Pont Museum, Tilburg, and centres on three important bodies of work: Doric, Landline and Eleuthera, Scully's first representational works in half a century. The publication also presents a generous selection of previously unseen early works, illustrating the world-renowned painter's development as an artist. High-quality photography illustrates the artworks both individually and in situ at the De Pont Museum's unique exhibition space. The book also includes three exemplary pieces of critical writing; Rudi Fuchs gives a rigorous analysis of Scully's robust and architectural Doric series of paintings, Kelly Grovier contributes an extensive, melodic text tracing the deep roots of Scully's recent figurative paintings, while Declan Long reflects upon Scully's undulating Landline series of paintings.

Sean Scully

Sean Scully
Author: Sean Scully
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1997
Genre: Painting, Abstract
ISBN:

Sean Scully is one of the foremost abstract artists of contempoary art. This book provides reproductions of his huge oil paintings from the period 1982-1996. These paintings are reminiscent of the shades and geometric shapes of traditional Moroccan carpets. Scully stated after a visit to Morocco that he was moved ....by the way carpets lay around partially covering each other in stores. The book vibrates with bold arrangements of stripes in Scully's trademark glowing colours of ochre, ivory, deep red and black.

Sean Scully

Sean Scully
Author: Timothy Rub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9780876332955

"A succinct account of the life and art of Sean Scully, widely considered to be one of the leading abstract painters of our time. This work sets his entire output within a detailed biographical framework, closely examining the relationship between the artist's paintings and his lesser-known drawings, pastels, watercolors, and prints-areas of Scully's production that are rarely considered together"--

Sean Scully and David Carrier in Conversation

Sean Scully and David Carrier in Conversation
Author: David Carrier
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2023-07-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3775755918

What makes a person an artist? How do works of art and their very own, extraordinary style come into being? And how does the prominent painter view his own work? The world-famous painter Sean Scully met with the philosopher David Carrier for several in-depth interview sessions. Their conversations explore these and many more questions about Scully's life, work, and ideas. The result is a rich manuscript that very closely approaches the status of a valid autobiography. Scully provides personal insights into his life and the important sources of inspiration for his career. He discusses his own view of his entire oeuvre, of art history and his position within it. Thus, this text becomes a literal eye-opener for Scully's art, which can be (re)discovered through his words. SEAN SCULLY (*1945, Dublin) is one of the most famous artists of his generation. In addition to numerous exhibitions worldwide, he has been honored with important awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and Harckness Fellowship. DAVID CARRIER (*1944) is a philosopher and art critic. His contributions to art appear in ArtForum and ArtUS, among others. With this interview tape, he takes up an interest of his teacher Arthur C. Danto, whose texts on Scully were published by Hatje Cantz in 2015.

Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States

Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States
Author: Cynthia Fowler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-05-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000588505

Taking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States. Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, photography and exhibitions from the nineteenth century to the present, the depth of the relationship between the two countries, as well as its complexity, is revealed. The book is intended for all who are interested in Irish/American interconnectedness and will be of particular interest to scholars and students of art history, visual culture, history, Irish studies and American studies.

The Truth Is Always Grey

The Truth Is Always Grey
Author: Frances Guerin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452957258

Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? By analyzing an array of modernist paintings, Guerin demonstrates that grey has a unique history and a legitimate identity as a color. She traces its use by painters as far back as medieval and Renaissance art, through Romanticism, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism to show how grey is the perfect color to address the questions asked by painting within art history and to articulate the relationship between painting and the historical world of industrial modernity. A work of exceptional erudition, breadth, and clarity, presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries as examples, The Truth Is Always Grey is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey.

Sean Scully

Sean Scully
Author: Stéphane Aquin
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588346412

"An exhibition catalog for Sean Scully's Landline"--

The Book of a Hundred Hands

The Book of a Hundred Hands
Author: Cole Swensen
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1587296470

The hand is second only to language in defining the human being, and its constant presence makes it a ready reminder of our humanity, with all its privileges and obligations. In this dazzling collection, Cole Swensen explores the hand from any angle approachable by language and art. Her hope: to exhaust the hand as subject matter; her joy: the fact that she couldn’t. These short poems reveal the hand from a hundred different perspectives. Incorporating sign language, drawing manuals, paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, shadow puppets, imagined histories, positions (the “hand as a boatless sail”), and professions (“the hand as window in which the panes infinitesimal”), Cole Swensen’s fine hand is “that which augments” our understanding and appreciation of “this freak wing,” this “wheel that comforts none” yet remains “a fruit the size and shape of the heart.”