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The Language of Light: Writings, Lectures, Interviews 1981 – 2021

By (author) Sean Scully, Edited by Paul Keegan

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The Language of Light is an authorised selection from Sean Scullyâ€™s lectures, notebooks and interviews, over the course of forty years, and provides an intimate overview of his work as painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. Scullyâ€™s reflections on his art are sustained throughout by his insights into the work of other artists, past and present: from Chardin to Morandi, from Rothko to Van Gogh, from Mondrian to Paul Klee or Gerhard Richter. The volume is equally an autobiographical sequence, reflecting on the artistâ€™s Irish origins and early childhood, his years of wandering and achievement â€“ from Newcastle to New York â€“ and his moment-by-moment responses to the world around him. As Paul Keegan writes in his introduction, â€˜this book about painting is about many other things too, which gives its proceedings an outdoors atmosphere, an air of looking aroundâ€™. The texts are often brief and invariably candid. They reveal a writer who paints, as much as a painter who writes. The book is organised into sections: Life Studies, Stories, Americana, Places, Portraits. The Language of Light contains forty or so images from Scullyâ€™s own work, representing his geometric abstractions and stripe motifs, his sculpture and photography, as well as a selection of supporting images from the work of other artists. The edition has benefited from the assistance of the Scully Archive, and has the approval of the artist.

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