Throughout his 30-year career, the renowned Dublin-born artist Sean Scully has continually sought to reinvigorate abstract painting, and has succeeded in this attempt by finding ways "through" (rather than around) postwar American abstraction. Scully employs a reductive vocabulary of thick horizontal and vertical bands of color, which perform an interplay of mass, light and shadow, through which he reconciles the ordered character of early European Modernism, with its ideals of harmony and spirituality, and late American ...
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Throughout his 30-year career, the renowned Dublin-born artist Sean Scully has continually sought to reinvigorate abstract painting, and has succeeded in this attempt by finding ways "through" (rather than around) postwar American abstraction. Scully employs a reductive vocabulary of thick horizontal and vertical bands of color, which perform an interplay of mass, light and shadow, through which he reconciles the ordered character of early European Modernism, with its ideals of harmony and spirituality, and late American Modernism, with its use of less harmonious, expressionistic compositions. Scully has described this tension: "I'm trying to capture something that has a classical stillness and at the same time has enough emotion or dissonance to create an unresolved quality." This volume, published concurrently with an exhibition at New York's Galerie Lelong, features 22 recent paintings, including works from Scully's much-admired "Wall of Light" and "Robe" series, plus recent watercolors and drawings.
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2009 hardcover edition with alternate cover (52 pages). \r\n\r\nSigns of wear/scuffs on front/back cover but book is in very good condition. Text is mostly clean & readable.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Very good. 2009 Charta hardcover. Text is fully in English. Lifgr wear, rubbinf to corners. One corner lightly bumped; covers a little rubbed. No writing in book.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. Size: 10x0x8; Very good hardcover without a dust a dust jacket as issued from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very light wear to illustrated boards which remain clean and bright. Text and images are very good throughout. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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VG+ Color-illustrated boards; 55 pp. with numerous color plates. Throughout his critically acclaimed 30-year career, Irish-American artist Sean Scully has invigorated abstract painting with an enduring investigation of its ability to convey universal truths about the human condition. This volume brings together 22 of Scully's oil paintings-including works from the "Wall of Light" and "Robe" series.