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Until recently little attention was paid to the role of art in constructing the “story” of the
Irish nation. This wide-ranging study of Irish pictures and sculpture opens up the subject by
providing a fresh interdisciplinary approach. Each work is analyzed beyond its strictly art
historical relevance. A deeper investigation into the context in which a work was produced
reveals much about the aspirations and ideological ambitions of artists, those commissioning
works, and the viewing public. The study of such diverse topics as the representation of the
Irish peasant, the behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for Ireland, the
erecting of political monuments, Church art, West of Ireland landscape painting, and the difference
in nationalistic fervor among artists as diverse as Albert G. Power and Jack B. Yeats unveil
fascinating testimony about Ireland’s collective national “needs” and its constructs of identity.

Ireland's Art, Ireland's History: Representing Ireland, 1845 to Present

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Until recently little attention was paid to the role of art in constructing the “story” of the Irish nation. This... Read more

    Publisher: Creighton University,U.S.
    Publication Date: 15/10/2007
    ISBN13: 9781881871514, 978-1881871514
    ISBN10: 1881871517

    Number of Pages: 304

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    Until recently little attention was paid to the role of art in constructing the “story” of the
    Irish nation. This wide-ranging study of Irish pictures and sculpture opens up the subject by
    providing a fresh interdisciplinary approach. Each work is analyzed beyond its strictly art
    historical relevance. A deeper investigation into the context in which a work was produced
    reveals much about the aspirations and ideological ambitions of artists, those commissioning
    works, and the viewing public. The study of such diverse topics as the representation of the
    Irish peasant, the behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for Ireland, the
    erecting of political monuments, Church art, West of Ireland landscape painting, and the difference
    in nationalistic fervor among artists as diverse as Albert G. Power and Jack B. Yeats unveil
    fascinating testimony about Ireland’s collective national “needs” and its constructs of identity.

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