Scully communicates with a raw pugnacity that is every bit as hard-hitting as his big brushstrokes. His history of Londons Newgate Prison, The Gaol, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the. For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. The book reflects the scope of Scully’s broad interests and opinions, with segments devoted not only to his attitudes towards the art world and his most significant works, but also culture, politics and philosophy. A New Way of Seeing : The History of Art in 57 Works - Kelly Grovier. Punctuated throughout by passionately recounted stories of struggle and loss, perseverance and triumph, the portrait that emerges from these pages is at once intimate and surprising. 2011) Kelly Grovier, The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London's Most Notorious Prison (London. Illustrated throughout with images that capture both the artist and his work, this volume explores Scully’s relationship with past masters, from Rembrandt to Rothko, and delves deep into his eventual rejection in the late 1970s of minimalism – the dominant force in abstract art at the time. The Newgate Calendar had become a series of sensational. In these revealing conversations, Scully recalls with poignancy and wit his rough-and-tumble childhood in London (where his family moved when he was a toddler), his tenacity in the face of rejection from nearly every art school in England, and his rise to prominence in New York in the 1980s.
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