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Book SynopsisA unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers. Sean Scullyâs paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and widely admired. Less well known is what a gifted storyteller and profound commentator on the history of art he is. In this fascinating book, the record of countless hours of conversations with Scullyâs friend, the art critic Kelly Grovier, the painter reflects on his extraordinary journey â from homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the mid-1940s to his current position as one of the most important abstract artists working today. In these revealing conversations, Scully recalls with poignancy and wit his rough-and-tumble childhood in London (where his family moved when he was a toddler), his tenacity in the face of rejection from nearly every art school in England, and his rise to prominence in New York in the 1980s. Illustrated throug
Trade Review'[Scully is] an artist whose name belongs on the shortest of the shortlists of major painters of our time' - Arthur Danto
'An incredible account of a world-renowned artist, who never minces his words' - The Arts Society
'Packed with [Scully’s] pungent opinions and tales of his wandering life' - The Spectator, Best Art Books of 2021
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Abstract Two Blues
2. A Bedroom in Venice
3. Newcastle Boogie-Woogie
4. Blame
5. Falling Wrong
6. Backs and Fronts
7. Mexico Malloy
8. Hammering
9. Between You and Me
10. Language of Light
11. Because of the Other
Sean Scully’s Life and Work
Notes
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Index
