Any collection with Scully's art needs this first-person analysis, key to understanding.

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	• Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistance : Selected Writings Merrell, 2006 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Sean Scully : Resistance and Persistance

Excellent book that explains Scully's thinking, influences and philosophy about the format he uses.
His views on Rothko, Van Gogh and the Art Pack group of painters that are in vogue. His "Wall Of Light"
paintings establish him as one of the best colorists working today.

Any collection with Scully's art needs this first-person analysis, key to understanding.

SEAN SCULLY: RESISTANCE AND PERSISTENCE SELECTED WRITINGS comes form one of the leading modern painters working in the arts, whose career has been built on abstract painted stripes and bars in muted colors. These works are exhibited in major holds throughout the world, but these writings here are key to understanding them, presenting his writings for the first time along with reproductions of his paintings. College-level art library holdings will find this an important addition to their collections, offering up insights into how Scully works, his art and inspirations, and artistic metaphors specific to pieces. Any collection with Scully's art needs this first-person analysis, key to understanding.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

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Always a winner

Sean Scully's paintings are wonderful and he talks so easily about them and his work and thought processes. As a painter I find his writings on painting particularly encouraging and thoroughly enjoyed this book cover to cover. It will remain an interesting and valuable part of my library.

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A Brilliant Book

Sean Scully is one of our finest artists alive. This book is a tribute to his ability, passion and reflection. There are only a few books as well written by any artist. I highly recommend this book for practicing artists and for anyone who is lost in the contemporary art scene. Scully links us to our cultural past, which is all but forgotten in this Warhol, materialistic society. Buy this book. You will not regret it.

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Sean Scully is one of the leading painters of our time. His career has been built on an apparently simple recipe of painted stripes and bars, and yet these bricks of colour offer unsettlingly complex possibilities. When Scully writes, his ideas work their own slow magic, and behind the deadpan delivery lurks a concise and considered understanding of the nature of painting and what it means to be an artist in the twenty-first century. This unprecedented collection of Scully writings, interspersed with superb reproductions of the artist?s paintings, includes his thoughts on Matisse, Morandi, Newman, Rothko and Van Gogh, alongside lectures given on his own work and his musings on such varied themes as life, love, colour, criticism, creativity and the machinations of the international art world.

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