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E-Book, Englisch, 83 Seiten
Scully Sean Scully: Tower
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6433-9
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 83 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6433-9
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
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.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Cover
Title Page
Sean Scully: Path to the Tower
Sean Scully: World
Sean Scully: Construere
Sean Scully: Bibliography
Selected Museum Exhibitions
Image Credits
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