Book by Cullen, Fintan, Murphy, William Michael

The Drawings of John Butler Yeats 1839-1922

Arts & Photography

Cullen, Fintan

MURPHY, William M.

Albany Institute of History and Art

Yeats, John Butler

History & Criticism

Syracuse Univ Pr

Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood

Looking past the apparent lack of a sustainable Irish display culture, this book demonstrates that there is a very full story to tell of the way Ireland displayed its art from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Ireland on Show analyzes the impact of the display of art as a significant political and cultural feature in the make-up of nineteenth-century Ireland - and in how Ireland was viewed beyond its own shores, in particular in Great Britain and the United States. Fintan Cullen directs much-needed critical attention and analysis to a subject that has been largely overlooked from an Irish perspective. This study moves beyond museums, to address the range of art institutions in Irish cities that displayed art, from the Royal Hibernian Academy, founded in the 1820s, to Hugh Lane's Municipal Art Gallery, opened in Dublin in 1908. Throughout, the book explores the battle between the display of a unionist ethos and a nationalist point of view, a constant that resurfaces over the period. By highlighting the tension between unionist and nationalist viewpoints, Cullen uses the display of art to investigate the complexities of Irish cultural life before the founding of the Free State.

Routledge

The relationship between art and national identity is a recurring theme in modern history. Is it possible to define a national school of art? How far does culture inspire or reflect social and political change? The Irish Face tackle s these questions with a bold and original analysis of three centuries of portraiture.

Irish Face

Themes

National Portrait Gallery

In this challenging and original interpretation of Irish subject matter in painting from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the focus is on the interaction of art and politics. Well know artists such as James Barry, David Wilkie and Jack Yeats feature, but more in the context of how they referred to Ireland in their work than in terms of overall assessment of their works.

Visual Politics: The Representation of Ireland, 1750-1930

Cork University Press

Sources on Irish Art: A Reader

Although the study of art history in Ireland has long been established, research in the field of Irish art history has been hampered by the difficulty in obtaining key source material on the critical reception of art. This book aims to provide an anthology of sources and documents relating to the history and development of the visual arts in Ireland form the eighteenth century to the present day. The anthology covers the period from the establishment of the Dublin Society Drawing Schools in 1746 to the opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1991. Judicious extracts and full texts that inform on attitudes and reactions to both the production of art and its uses in Ireland are included. Public exhibition reviews, comments from private letters and journals as well as polemical and theoretical essays illustrate what was being said and thought about artistic development in Ireland over the past two centuries. A significant achievement of the anthology is that it clearly illustrates the practical and theoretical parallels with both literary and other artistic traditions, which the visual tradition in Ireland enjoys. The publication of these texts in a single volume enables the reader to create useful historical comparisons as well as facilitating the careful examination of historical documents. These features should have particular appeal to students of art history and cultural studies.

Reference

A comprehensive anthology of sources and documents relating to the history and development of visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day, collected into a single volume.

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The Drawings of John Butler Yeats 1839-1922

Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood

Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood

Irish Face

Visual Politics: The Representation of Ireland, 1750-1930

Sources on Irish Art: A Reader

Sources on Irish Art: A Reader