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Sean Scully (Bilingual edition)

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Sean Scully (Bilingual edition) explores the artist's dynamic use of lines and swaths of colour, highlighting his continual experimentation with paint and abstraction. The book offers insights into Scully's evolving style and his dialogue with Formalism, framed within the context of modern and historical art traditions and presented alongside Neoclassical sculptures.
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Format: Hardback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, abstraction, and the evolution of artistic techniques within a rich historical context.

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Creating works with a fascinating range of tone and expression, Sean Scully's oeuvre is a continuous exploration of his core motif of lines and swaths of colour. Captivating the observer through an uncertainty of edges and brushstrokes that appear to exalt the materiality of paint, pigment, and abstraction, Scully experiments with a variety of media and materials.

Material World provides insight into the artist's practice and stylistic approach, which have evolved through a sustained engagement with the art historical tradition of Formalism. In an in-depth essay, Raphy Sarkissian situates Sean Scully's art in dialogue with selected works of abstract and figurative, modern and pre-modern painting and sculpture, as well as with aesthetic theories. This dialogue translates further into the interplay of the museum's architecture and the Neoclassical sculptures presented alongside Scully's work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775752800

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 October 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 60 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Text by Per Haubro Jensen
  • Designed by Martha Stutteregger
  • Text by Annette Johansen
  • Text by Raphy Sarkissian

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 900g

Pages: 120

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