Irish art, 1920-2020 : perspectives on change / Catherine Marshall and Yvonne Scott, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, Catherine, 1948- editor.

Scott, Yvonne, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Irish--20th century.

Art, Irish.

Art, Irish--21st century.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xxi, 423 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2022.

Summary:

This book examines Irish art over the last hundred and twenty years or so, from 1900 to now, considering key examples and developments and how visual expression can be read for what it reflects and reveals of art and society during this time. Art in Ireland was peculiarly shaped on one hand by the country's geographic isolation, political upheaval, religious repression and its post-colonial history, and on the other by the interconnections with the world as a consequence of factors, including diaspora, location (between Europe and America), and cultural aspirations. Alongside all the changes that a maturing state, relative prosperity, and a regular flow of intercommunications with the outside world brought, there were two key developments that responded to the growing interest in and confidence in the visual arts, and that led ultimately to the idea for this book: the foundation of IMMA in 1991; and the establishment of an educational environment dedicated to, rather than simply including, Irish art, formalised with the establishment of a more focused teaching and research on Irish art at all levels.

Contents:

Taking charge: making art in a century of change / Catherine Marshall

The languages of abstraction: Irish dialects and dialectics / Riann Coulter and Donal Maguire

Visualising Irish history: conflicting utopias / Catherine Marshall

Landscape as an expanded field / Yvonne Scott

The body in space and time: reading corporeity and Ireland in art / Suzanna Chan

An expression of matter: sculpture and installation / Paula Murphy

The Arts and Crafts movement and its influence on Irish art / Nicola Gordon Bowe

Culture is ordinary: an (incomplete) history of Irish graphic design, 1950-2020 / Linda King

New media: 'there is no special way works of art have to be' / Siún Hanrahan

Conceptual: 'the last partisans of the avant-garde'? / Gavin Murphy

Beyond the walls of national identity: the triangulation of art criticism, curatorial discourse and art practice, an Irish case study / Lucy Cotter

Globalisation and Irish art: a grand scheme? / Yvonne Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1911479822

9781911479826

OCLC:

1327836009