autobiography reviews :: Jon Schueler

The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life, edited by Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau, was published by Picador USA in March 1999, and is now going into its second printing.: Hardcover, 359 pp., 16 pages color and 32 b&w photos. ISBN 0-312-20015-3. $30 US, £20 UK.; Available at your local bookstore in the US or the UK,; or at online booksellers such as Powell's Bookstores, Chicago, Amazon.com (US), Amazon.co.uk (UK), or BarnesandNoble.com.; The index to the book is available at www.jonschueler.com/sleatindex

Amazon.com: "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 ... "
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999, (near bottom of the page).: "It 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."; (If not found, try a search at The Atlantic Monthly website.)
BarnesandNoble.com: " ... an astonishing window on art, hope, despair, and creativity."
The New York Times, Feb. 25, 1999: " ... with cumulative power the entries explain the remarkable experience Schueler underwent upon his arrival at the Sound of Sleat, ..."; (An account on the New York Times website is required to access the review online.)
The New York Observer, March 15, 1999 by Daniel Kunitz: "Two Roads Diverged: Guess Which One Warhol Took"
The San Juan Star, Monday, March 15, 1999 by Gerald Guinness: "Schueler emerges warts and all in new book"
Baltimore City Paper, April 7, 1999.: "Creative Chaos: Sleat Paints a Portrait of the Artist as a Man at War With Himself"
Kirkus Reviews: "The wild, stormy weather of Scotland's West Coast mirrored his own emotional struggle: insecure and ambitious, driven and desiring, Schueler ricocheted between countries, dealers, and women."
The Herald, June 7, 1999: "A paean to fierce beauty," review by Clare Henry.; "Schueler's self-portrait illuminates the reality of an artist's daily grind of finding a studio, a dealer, enough to pay the bills. He also gives a vivid account of his inner life: the struggles with his pictures, his book, himself."
Scotland, Sunday, March 12, 2000: "The Sound of clouds moving," review by Philip Hobsbaum.; "...a fascinating story emerges."
The Art Newspaper, International Edition, September 2000: " Abstract Expressionism in the Hebrides," review by Clare Henry.
The Art Books, Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2000,: Review by Victoria Keller.; "This book is a real pleasure to read as Schueler writes beautifully..."

Jon Schueler – Autobiography Reviews