Sean Scully - Walls of Aran

Name: Sean Scully - Walls of Aran
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500545133
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Sean Scully is celebrated for his abstract paintings featuring lines and bands of colour that evoke architectural elements like portals, windows, and walls. Walls of Aran is a unique visual exploration capturing his photographs of the dry stone walls on the Aran Islands, off Ireland's west coast, bringing a fresh perspective to his artistic vision.
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Ideal for art lovers, admirers of Sean Scully's work, and anyone interested in Irish culture and landscape photography.

A new, compact edition of Sean Scully's photographs, featuring horizontal and vertical shards of limestone that echo his painted work and reveal a creative process best expressed through abstract shapes.

A collection of Sean Scully’s photographs of Aran Island’s stone walls

Description

Sean Scully is one of today's best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is one of the most instantly recognizable in contemporary painting.

Sean Scully - Walls of Aran brings together for the first time his photographs of the dry stone walls found on the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Irish Times praises the book for being "self-contained and pleasing as a piece of work in itself," noting its focused approach. Books Ireland highlights how it "successfully conveys the special magic of those far western parts and of the encounter between man and stone and the elements."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500545133

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 August 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: including 64 illustrations in 4-colour black and white; 64 Illustrations, black and white; 9 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Photographs by Sean Scully
Introduction by Colm Tóibín

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 128

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Sean Scully was born in Dublin in 1945. He grew up in London and works in New York and Barcelona. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States: including exhibitions at the Kunstammlung Nordeim Westfalen in Dusseldoerf, Germany, (2001); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2000); the Milwaukee Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, and Albright-Knox Gallery (1998–99); Galeria Arte Moderna,Villa delle Rose in Bologna, and Galerie National de Jeu de Paumme in Paris (1996). His work may be found in museum collections worldwide, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York;The Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain;Tate Gallery in London, England;The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland; and Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan. Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, journalist and critic. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.