The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life - Couverture souple

Schueler, Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798985288438

Editeur : Magda Salvesen, 2023

Synopsis

The Sound of Sleat “is an amazing, totally peculiar piece of work. It may be the best thing ever written about the workings of a painter’s mind and eye.” Phoebe-Lou Adams, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999

Jon Schueler (1916-1992), the American Abstract Expressionist painter, left New York in 1957 for Mallaig, a Scottish village overlooking the Sound of Sleat between the mainland and the Isle of Skye. Here, the dramatic play of light in the northern skies inspired his art and influenced his entire career.
Over 30 years, as he painted, Schueler worked on this book, struggling to describe the forces that compelled him to paint. At the same time, he wrestled with the eternal artistic conflict: how to balance creative solitude and the equally powerful need for human intimacy. The Sound of Sleat offers a fascinating window on art, passion, hope, despair, and creativity

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À propos des auteurs

Jon Schueler, an American Abstract Expressionist painter, came to painting late in life, taking his first classes in Los Angeles after he had already married and begun a family. But under teachers Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn at the California School of Fine Arts, he quickly discovered a talent and a love for painting that compelled him to move to New York, where he began to define and perfect his artistic vision.An early protégé of Leo Castelli, Schueler lived and worked among the country's most gifted artists: Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and many others. But when in the late 1950s nature became a stronger poetic force in his work, Schueler set off for Scotland. He discovered Mallaig, a town in the Western Highlands on the Sound of Sleat, where the dramatic landscape inspired his art and continued to influence him throughout his career.Over nearly thirty years, as he painted, Schueler worked on this book. In it, he struggled to uncover what it was that drove him to paint and wrestled with a conflict that confronts all artists-how to strike a balance between the need to create in solitude and the desire for human intimacy.JON SCHUELER grew up in Milwaukee and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1951 he moved to New York and from his base there he sojourned in Scotland, Paris, Italy, and at several universities in the United States. He died in 1992.

Magda Salvesen was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland. After obtaining an MA from the University of St Andrews in 1966 (with a scholarship year at Sweet Briar College, VA, USA from 1964 to 1965), she did graduate work in art history at the Courtauld Institute, University of London (MA 1968), and then worked for the Scottish Arts Council in Edinburgh. She met the American artist Jon Schueler in 1970, and after living with him in the Western Highlands of Scotland she followed him to New York in 1976 where they were married. Since then, she has lectured on art history at the New School University and elsewhere; and, from 1988 to 2009 taught landscape design history and theory and other courses at the New York Botanical Garden. Between 2011 and 2021 she was part of the Department of Art, Architecture History, and Urban Studies at NYU as adjunct assistant professor. She co-edited with Diane Cousineau The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life by Jon Schueler, Picador USA, 1999, to be republished in 2023; was the director and executive producer of the video Jon Schueler: A Life in Paint in 1999; and acted as consultant editor for Jon Schueler: To the North, Merrell Publishers, Ltd., London, 2002. In 2005 Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, co-edited with Diane Cousineau, was published by Rutgers University Press (republished in 2022) and in 2011 Exploring Gardens and Green Spaces from Connecticut to the Delaware Valley, was published by WW Norton. She lives in New York where she was the curator of the Jon Schueler Estate from 1992 until she became the President of the Jon Schueler Foundation in 2022.

Diane Cousineau received a PhD in English (UC Davis, 1975) after completing a thesis on Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Between 1983 and 2008, she taught literature courses at both American and French Universities and published articles on various women writers and a book length study, "Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/Cultural/Codes," published in America by the University of Delaware Press, 1997 and in Britain by the Associated University Presses, 1997. She lives in Chestertown, MD.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Magda Salvesen
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798985288438
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 422
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg