Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858943515 ISBN 13: 9781858943510

Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Sean Scully (born in 1945) is one of the leading painters of our time. His career has been built on an apparently simple recipe of painted stripes and bars, and yet these bricks of colour offer unsettlingly complex possibilities. When Scully writes, his ideas work their own slow magic, and behind the deadpan delivery lurks a concise and considered understanding of the nature of painting and what it means to be an artist in the twenty-first century. This unprecedented collection of Scully writings, interspersed with superb reproductions of the artist's paintings, includes his thoughts on Matisse, Morandi, Newman, Rothko and Van Gogh, alongside lectures given on his own work and his musings on such varied themes as life, love, colour, criticism, creativity and the machinations of the international art world.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

Review:

Sean Scully's book is lustrously knitted from transcribed lectures and catalogue essays, with several short epigrams and an interview thrown in - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

About this edition

• Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1858943515
• ISBN 13: 9781858943510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Ingleby Florence