
Sean Scully: Tower
Sean Scully(Author)
Sean Scully(Artist)
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 26. August 2026
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-3-7757-6349-3 (ISBN)
Description
Recently declared the "greatest living abstract painter," Sean Scully's Tower paintings offer more radical reinvention and bold dismantling of his practice. These are paintings of allegorical force, in tessellating panels of wood, felt and aluminum, spray paint, competing grids, flashes of road signs. Just as the broken shards of Cubism at the beginning of the twentieth century reflected anxiety wrought of industrial change and the First World War's impending doom, the manic fractures of Scully's Towers reflect current anxieties a century later. In their disorder and disjuncture they are towers of Babel, 25 years after 9/11 and the collapse of the World Trade Center a few blocks from the artist's studio, asking us whether our society can ever be reconstructed, or if the joy is to be found in the tumult.
SEAN SCULLY (*1945, Dublin) is one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary artists. The oeuvre of the Irish-born artist, who grew up in London and moved to New York in 1975, is characterized by an intense confrontation with Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting, and Minimalism-matched by intellectually engaging writings and lectures. Scully lives and works in New York, Aix-en-Provence, and Bavaria.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
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Trade binding
Illustrations
50 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
50
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-6349-3 (9783775763493)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
SEAN SCULLY (*1945, Dublin) ist einer der bekanntesten Künstler seiner Generation. Neben zahlreichen Ausstellungen weltweit wurde er mit wichtigen Preisen wie dem Guggenheim Fellowship und Harckness Fellowship geehrt.
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Artist
SEAN SCULLY (*1945, Dublin) ist einer der bekanntesten Künstler seiner Generation. Neben zahlreichen Ausstellungen weltweit wurde er mit wichtigen Preisen wie dem Guggenheim Fellowship und Harckness Fellowship geehrt.
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