Sean Scully
Subtitle: a retrospective
By: Danilo Eccher ... [et al.]
Contributors: Eccher, Danilo; Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain); Musée d'art moderne Saint-Etienne; Museo d'arte contemporanea Roma
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; In association with the Fundació Joan Miró
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780500093382
Subjects: Scully, Sean, -- 1945- -- Exhibitions; Painting, Abstract -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "Irish-born Sean Scully is one of the most important abstract painters alive today. Over the course of more than thirty years, he has produced a vibrant, compelling and constantly inventive body of work in a range of media that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of color alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls is instantly recognizable." "Published to accompany a major European exhibition tour, Sean Scully: A Retrospective includes work in all media - painting, photographs, prints, drawings and watercolors - from the early 1970s to the present, the only book to cover Scully's entire career to date. Texts by respected curators Danilo Eccher, Lorand Hegyi and Maria Lluisa Borras and award-winning American critic and art historian Donald Kuspit position the artist in his rightful place within the traditions of earlier abstraction and of painting in general, while discussing the spiritual, emotional and very human nature of his art."--Jacket.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, June 28-Sept. 30, 2007; traveling to the Musée d'art moderne, Saint Étienne, Feb.-Mar. 2008 and the Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rome, Apr.-Aug. 2008

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