Modern Ireland in 100 artworks /
Contributor(s): O'Toole, Fintan [editor.] | Marshall, Catherine [editor.] | Walshe, Eibhear [editor.].
Publisher: Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 2016Description: xix, 323 pages : illustrations (color and black and white), portraits (color and black and white) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1908996927; 9781908996923:; 9781908996923.Subject(s): Arts, Irish -- 20th century | Art, Irish -- 20th century | Artists -- Ireland | Art and state -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Art and state -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century | Art, Irish -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 700.9415 Summary: 100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Ireland's creative output from the revolutionary period until today. The story that emerges through these 100 works is not one of artists gradually finding their place of honour in the republic. Especially in the visual arts it is, on the contrary, a story of never-ending argument, of works that are disliked, rejected, fought over, even painted over. Instead of the artists supporting the state and the state supporting the artists, it is a case of the artists challenging and upsetting the community and the community looking warily at the artists. This is what makes Irish art, at its best, so edgy, so embattled and so vital. Most artists and writers featured have been profiled in the RIA's Dictionary of Irish Biography which outlines the lives at home and overseas of prominent men and women born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland.Summary: The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Ireland's creative output from the revolutionary period until today. The story that emerges through these 100 works is not one of artists gradually finding their place of honour in the republic. Especially in the visual arts it is, on the contrary, a story of never-ending argument, of works that are disliked, rejected, fought over, even painted over. Instead of the artists supporting the state and the state supporting the artists, it is a case of the artists challenging and upsetting the community and the community looking warily at the artists. This is what makes Irish art, at its best, so edgy, so embattled and so vital. Most artists and writers featured have been profiled in the RIA's Dictionary of Irish Biography which outlines the lives at home and overseas of prominent men and women born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland.
The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.