The first fully illustrated, full-color survey of this popular abstract painter's entire career. Sean Scully is one of today's best-loved abstract painters. Over more than thirty years, he has produced a vibrant and compelling body of work 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 one of the most instantly recognizable in contemporary painting. This book is the first fully illustrated monograph to present an account of the artist's entire life and career to date, from his childhood in 1950s London, via New York and Barcelona, to the present day in Munich. Lavish, full-page reproductions of all his major works illustrate the text, while photographs taken by Scully on his travels show some of the forms that inspire them. Photographs of Scully at work in his studio demonstrate stage-by-stage how he creates his pictures, from blank canvas to finished work. Eminent art historian and critic David Carrier traces the development of Scully's oeuvre and assesses its significance. Drawing on his many conversations with Scully, Carrier provides unique insights into the artist's working methods and the motivations for his art. Extracts from Scully's own passionate writings and lectures on painting complete a volume that should be found on all contemporary art bookshelves. 214 illustrations, 205 in color.

Sean Scully

Arts & Photography

Carrier, David

Scully, Sean

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Sean Scully's photographs, with their horizontal and vertical shards of limestone, echo his painted work, revealing a creative process expressed through abstract shapes. Sean Scully is one of today's most esteemed painters, whose familiar signature style of lines or bands of color is instantly recognizable. Scully is also an accomplished photographer, his eye drawn in particular to architectural shapes that have clear affinities with his painted work. During the summer of 2005, he spent time on the remote Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland, photographing the ancient dry-stone walls that criss-cross the stark and barren landscape. This book brings together for the first time his sensitive images, revealing the unexpected yet monumental beauty of these centuries-old structures that meander across the windswept and rocky islands. In their form and spirit, the photographs shed light on Scully's own sensibilities as an artist. They also capture the stillness and serenity of this rugged, timeless place on the edge of Europe. An evocative text by the award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín conveys the mysterious beauty of the three Aran Islands. 75 duotone photographs.

Sean Scully: Walls of Aran

Individual Artists

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: LANDLINES AND OTHER RECENT WORKS /ANGLAIS (CULTURESHOCK ME)

Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards with title on tipped-in label on cover and debossed on spine; no dust jacket as issued. Prints by Sean Scully. Essay by David Carrier. Unpaginated, with 19 four-color plates and additional illustrations. 11-3/4 x 11-1/2 inches.

Sean Scully: Prints from the Garner Tullis workshop

Garner Tullis

Sean Scully began his "five-year love affair with minimalism," as he later called it, in 1975, just after moving from the U.K. to New York. His paintings of that period were cold, "severe, invulnerable canvases," he once said, often done only in gradations of black. From here, with everything taken out of painting but its name, there was no clear way forward; if Scully was to avoid repeating himself, he would have to begin putting feeling back in. "The Eighties," a show of around twenty pictures dating from between 1982 and 1989, looks at how he slowly softened his tone, expanded his palette, and relaxed his lines, ultimately arriving at his truest discovery: that "all profoundly original art looks ugly at first," as the art critic Clement Greenberg once wrote. In Scully's words, his works of this period are "romantic portraits of the city: all based on collision, pressure, and disharmony."

Sean Scully : The Eighties

Mnuchin Gallery

Sean Scully: Horizon

Timothy Taylor Gallery

Original Thought Provoking A conversation piece A must read

Mindful Wisdom

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Outskirts Press

The Language of Light is an authorized selection from Sean Scully's lectures, notebooks and interviews, over the course of 40 years, and provides an intimate overview of his work as painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. Scully's reflections on his art are sustained throughout by his insights into the work of other artists, past and present: from Chardin to Morandi, from Rothko to Van Gogh, from Mondrian to Paul Klee or Gerhard Richter. The volume is equally an autobiographical sequence, reflecting on the artist's Irish origins and early childhood, his years of wandering and achievement - from Newcastle to New York - and his moment-by-moment responses to the world around him. As Paul Keegan writes in his introduction, 'this book about painting is about many other things too, which gives its proceedings an outdoors atmosphere, an air of looking around'. The texts are often brief and invariably candid. They reveal a writer who paints, as much as a painter who writes. The book is organized into sections: Life Studies, Stories, Americana, Places, Portraits. The Language of Light contains 40 or so images from Scully's own work, representing his geometric abstractions and stripe motifs, his sculpture and photography, as well as a selection of supporting images from the work of other artists. The edition has benefited from the assistance of the Scully Archive&nbsp;and has the approval of the artist.&nbsp;

The Language of Light: Writings, Lectures, Interviews 1981 – 2021

The Lilliput Press

Sean Scully (French Edition)

Distribution, Le Seuil

Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk

Hatje Cantz

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