This companion contains new and innovative writing on Irish art and its history, from c. 1800 to the present day.
This book critically engages with Irish art in a period linked to key events in Irish history, beginning with the Acts of Union between Britain and Ireland (180001)) and the significant social and cultural changes that resulted. The book also provides a precedent for a focus on the significance of art in relation to other subsequent key historical events such as the early twentieth-century struggles for independence or the role of political conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s onwards and its aftermath. Key themes covered include tradition and innovation; upheavals of history; place, location, and artistic formations; Irish art and the wider world; and embodiment and identity. The book expands the critical discourse around Irish art over this period, both within Ireland and beyond, and encourages the potential for future scholarship in fields and periods not covered.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students working in art history, Irish studies, and colonial studies.
This companion contains new and innovative writing on Irish art and its history, from c. 1800 to the present day.
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"The Routledge Companion to Irish Art focuses on over 200 years of Irish visual culture, from the Act of Union to the present day. Arranged thematically, it provides new contextual, critical and theoretical insights. The 44 essays feature present new research by academics, curators and artists. This impressive compendium is organised across five sections: Tradition, innovation and the discourses of art; Art and the upheavals of history; Visualities; Art and the wider world: empire diaspora and the postcolonial; and Embodiment and identity. The essays span regional, national and transnational issues within the ever broadening discipline of visual culture."
-- Niamh OSullivan, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Introduction Section 1: Tradition, innovation and the discourses of art
1. A national body for the visual arts: the early history of the RHA
1823-1860
2. The Irish in the Sculptural Pantheon of St Pauls Cathedral,
London, 1800-1922
3. Erins Harp: art and music in the long Nineteenth
Century
4. The Cultural Revival
5. Artisans of the avant-garde: Evie Hone,
Mainie Jellett and the decorative arts
6. Jack B. Yeats: painter,
illustrator, and comic strip artist
7. Magazines and art in the mid-Twentieth
Century
8. The Ulster Unit: an avant-garde formation in the 1930s
9. Hilary
Heron and mid-Twentieth Century modernist sculpture Section 2: Art and the
upheavals of history
10. A holy union: James Barry and the 1801 Act of
Union
11. Images of the Famine: art, monuments and exhibitions from the
Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-first Century
12. Evictions and the Land
Wars: visuality, technology and legacy
13. Painting History: William Orpen
and the Great War
14. Photographing women: the Rising and after
15.
Unfinished business: Jack B. Yeats, modernity and the avant-garde
16. Art
practice and the conflict in the North
17. Troubling the Past in the Present:
socially engaged art and the Decade of Centenaries Section 3: Visualities
18. The Matter of the Past: modes of antiquarian representation
19. The 1853
Dublin Exhibition and its imperial legacy
20. Photographing Dublin: the
street photography of J.J. Clarke and Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave
21. Tracing
the artist-bohemian in Free State Dublin
22. Women of the West
23. The White
Stag Group, 1939-1946
24. Expressionism in the 1980s
25. The Orchard Gallery,
Derry: public practice during the 1980s
26. Making Strange: the climate
crisis and recent art Section 4: Art and the wider world: empire, diaspora
and the postcolonial
27. Southern India, 1800-1816: conquest and contingency:
two portraits by Thomas Hickey
28. Poverty, Slavery and Empire: Honoré
Daumiers caricatures of Ireland, Great Britain,
Jamaica and France, 1844-1867
29. The Artist, The Book, and Picturing The
Other Country: Walkers Ireland (1905)
30. Hugh Lane and the Controversy
over a Modern Art Gallery in Dublin
31. Cross-reflections in a Cracked
Mirror: trans-Atlantic influences on visual art, 1875-1950
32. Sidney Nolans
Irishness: a view from the Antipodes
33. Irish Artists in West Cornwall
34.
The Optical Illusion: Brian ODoherty, Ireland and New York avant-garde
35.
Global Engagement and Modalities of Looking in the Work of Brian Maguire,
Richard
Mosse, and Yuri Pattison. Section 5: Embodiment and identity
36. Caricatured
Bodies and Victorian Mental Landscapes
37. Masculinities in
Nineteenth-Century Art
38. Hidden in Plain Sight: Estella Solomons portraits
39. Embodiments in Feminist Art from the 1980s and Beyond
40. Queer Agency in
the Making of Modern and Contemporary Art
41. Gender and Sexuality in
Northern Irish art from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit
42. Beyond the Gable Walls: queering the work of Gerard Dillon
43. Sculpture
in Transformation
44. Thin as gold leaf: gender, embodiment, and digital
technologies
Fionna Barber is Reader in Art History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Fintan Cullen is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK.
