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Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistance : Selected Writings

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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

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.

The clarity and depth of Scully's reflections on the meaning and making of art are matched only by the tenacity of a sustained and credible studio practice. This work provides penetrating insights into the nature and place of painting in contemporary life, offering up metaphors about it that should help guide an artist through a maze of self-imposed constraints and limitations just when they need it most. As a painter I cannot recommend this book enough as a resource that will help extend and challenge your thinking, but more importantly, your work and your conviction about it's place in the world.

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.

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.