On the Line: Conversations With Sean Scully - Hardcover

Grovier, Kelly

 
9780500094310: On the Line: Conversations With Sean Scully

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Sean Scully s paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous color are critically acclaimed and widely admired. In this fascinating book, the record of countless hours of conversations between Scully and his friend art critic Kelly Grovier, the painter reflects on his extraordinary journey 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, 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.On the Line

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Kelly Grovier is a poet, historian, and cultural critic. He is a regular contributor on art to the Times Literary Supplement, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Observer, Sunday Times, and Wired. Educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Oxford, he is the author of 100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age, Art Since 1989, and On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully.

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