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Unique Act: Five Abstract Painters: Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Sean Shanahan, Frederick Thursz, Ruth Root

Unique Act: Five Abstract Painters: Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Sean Shanahan, Frederick Thursz, Ruth Root


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Seven seasoned writers and authorities on contemporary art come together in this book to explore and celebrate the work of five modern artists. "Unique Act" accompanies an exhibition at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane and also makes a major contribution to the place of abstract painting in the art-historical annals. David Carrier's introduction traces a history of abstraction which sets the scene for the birth of these artists. He describes the theoretical development in modern art and then offers examples of its practice in these painters' work. He draws out the links between French Impressionists and the art reproduced in this book, comparing Frederic Thursz with Monet and Carmengloria Morales with Manet.Frederic Thursz became a legendary figure in the 1970s and 1980s, holding exhibitions in Europe and America. Sean Scully is considered to be the leading abstract artist of his generation. Carmengloria Morales works on shapes that echo the Old Masters: tondo and diptych. Sean Shanahan and Ruth Root challenge many of the accepted norms of older abstraction. The essay contributors in Unique Act acknowledge the singular nature of each artist but reveal them to be united by the common thread of the abstract practice. This is a book which offers a theory of abstraction as a tradition and demonstrates the significant roles of these artists in constructing a canon for this movement.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword, Barbara Dawson; Frederic Matys Thursz: Light is the Envelope, Lilly Wei; Frederic Matys Thursz: Selected works; Sean Scully: Wall of Light Desert Night, 1999, Sue Hubbard; Sean Scully: Selected works; Carmengloria Morales: Painting as concept and action, Giovanni Maria Accame; Carmengloria Morales: Selected works; Sean Shanahan: Marginal Ambivalence, Gavin Morrison; Sean Shanahan: Selected works; Ruth Root: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Jasper Sharp; Ruth Root: Selected works; Installation views; A Wave of the Future - Five Abstract Painters, David Carrier; Works in the Exhibition; Artist Biographies; Author Biographies; Colophon.

About the Author :
Giovanni Maria Accame is Professor of Contemporary Arts at Brera Unviversity; David Carrier is the Champney Family Professor for Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Art; Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and critic; Gavin Morrison is Head of Exhibitions at the Centre for Visual Research, Fort Worth, Texas; Jasper Sharp is an independent curator and writer; Lilly Wei is an independent curator, essayist and critic.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848220027
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Height: 270 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Sub Title: Five Abstract Painters: Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Sean Shanahan, Frederick Thursz, Ruth Root
  • Width: 220 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1848220022
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jul 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 612 gr


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