Research Catalog

Title

Sean Scully : the art of the stripe / Brian Kennedy.

Author

Kennedy, Brian P., 1961-

Publication

Hanover, N.H. : Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College ; Lebanon, N.H. : Distributed by University Press of New England, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Scully, Sean, 1945-
• Hood Museum of Art

Description

vii, 134 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"Sean Scully has made the motif of stripes his own, offering through them a sustained exploration of the nature of human relationships. We learn to read his stripes and colored shapes as meditations on, for example, union and disunion, dependence and independence, or harmony and disharmony. But because his images are not figurative, they can seek a universal appeal, color and form being understood by all cultures. This book by Brian Kennedy; Director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College includes interviews with the artist about his career and, in particular, his preoccupation with stripes, as well as essays on the stripe in Western abstract painting and in Sean Scully's work of the past four decades."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Art of the stripe

Subject

• Scully, Sean, 1945- > Exhibitions
• Painting, Abstract > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., Jan. 12-Mar. 9, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-127) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- On modern abstract painting in Europe and North America -- Sean Scully : some basic principles -- An interview -- Sean Scully : the art of the stripe -- The stripes : a photo essay -- Afterword : the history of the stripe in western society.

ISBN

• 0944722342
• 9780944722343

LCCN

^^2008023198

OCLC

• 230915919
• SCSB-9884361

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library