本书对现代最**的抽象画家之一从20世纪70年代初到现在的职业生涯进行了一次非同寻常的回顾

《肖恩•斯库里:创意之形》将他的全部作品置于一个详细的传记框架内，仔细研究了这位艺术家的油画和他鲜为人知的素描、粉彩、水彩和版画之间的关系--这些都是Scully很少被放在一起考虑的作品。本书为配合这位艺术家的巡回回顾展而出版，展示了丰富的插图，对其最重要作品进行了详细的介绍，对他的绘画事业提出了新的见解。本书是了解Scully的各类作品和他在当代艺术史上的影响力的不可或缺的资源。

An extraordinary retrospective of one of the leading abstract painters of our time, surveying the artist’s career from the early 1970s to the present

In a sustained exploration of the possibilities of abstraction, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has created a rich body of work throughout his 50-

year career. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas sets his entire output within a detailed biographical framework, closely examining the relationship between the artist’s paintings and his lesser-known drawings, pastels, watercolors, and prints—areas of Scully’s production that are rarely considered together. At the heart of the book is an investigation of the development and reception of Scully’s work based on historical and contemporary reviews as well as extensive interviews with the artist. Featured contributions include a preface by Marla Price, author of Scully’s multivolume catalogue raisonné, and an essay by the poet and art critic Kelly Grovier on the unique contribution Scully has made to the history of abstraction. Published to coincide with the artist’s touring retrospective exhibition, this publication presents sumptuous illustrations and detailed accounts of his most significant bodies of work, offering new insight into his practice. It is an indispensable resource to understanding Scully’s wide-ranging oeuvre and his influential place in contemporary art history.