On the Line : Conversations with Sean Scully

Omtale

Sean Scullys 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 journeyfrom 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