Sources in Irish Art: A Reader

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Cork University Press, 2000 - Architecture - 325 pages
Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader' is an anthology of literary and critical sources for the study of visual art and Ireland. It is a completely new version of the 2000 publication, Sources in Irish Art with an additional editor, brand new texts with the historical range stretching from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Divided into four sections, Art historiography, Nationalism and identity, the Wider world, and Art and text, the sources included are taken from letters, travel diaries, antiquarian writings, art dictionaries, accounts of collections, memoirs, essays, exhibition catalogues and reviews, and government enquiries. The sources range from the letters of Jonathan Swift in the eighteenth century regarding the conservation of funerary monuments in St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin to a 2010 essay on the impact of the sexuality of the modern Irish artist, Gerard Dillon on his practice. While many of the earlier sources refer to art produced in the colonial period, those of the twentieth and twenty-first century relate to art produced in an independent Ireland and in the newly created Northern Ireland. In recent years there has been a dramatic upsurge in research and publishing on Irish art that has produced new writings and new approaches which has furthered the rediscovery of forgotten or overlooked texts. This anthology aims to make such texts easily available to the general reader, the student or teacher. While well-known names in Irish art from Jack B. Yeats to Alice Maher feature in this anthology, the editors also offer commentary from international voices such as Gustave Courbet, Clement Greenberg, Lucy Lippard and Thomas McEvilley. The diversity and broad chronological range of texts offer unique and exceptional insights into the issues and ideas that influenced the production and responses to art in Ireland.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
9
Word and Image
23
3
42
5
51
6
59
8
65
9
73
Elizabeth Thompson Lady Butler
84
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
185
Benjamin Robert Haydon
193
Richard Robert Madden
199
George Moore
206
Hugh Lane
213
Display
229
Anonymous Diarist
237
The Nation
243

Tom Duddy
91
Declan McGonagle
100
William Godwin
109
W Justin ODriscoll
121
John Lavery
128
Paul Henry
140
Fionna Barber
150
Introduction
161
John Parker
167
The Earl of Charlemont
173
Edmund Burke
179
Thomas MacGreevy
252
Brian ONolan Myles na gCopaleen
258
Introduction
267
Cyril Barrett
273
Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin
281
Luke Gibbons
295
Catherine Nash
302
Copyright Acknowledgements
309
Index
319
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Fintan Cullen has taught and researched in the area of Irish visual arts for over twenty years. He is a lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham, England.

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