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Harry Clarke's war : illustrations for Ireland's memorial records 1914-1918 /

By: Helmers, Marguerite.
Publisher: Salliuns, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2016Description: vii, 264 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0716533073; 9780716533078:; 9780716533085.Subject(s): Clarke, Harry, 1889-1931 | Clarke, Harry, 1889-1931. Ireland's Memorial Records, 1914-1918 | Graphic arts -- Ireland -- 20th century | Memorials in art | Illustration of books -- Themes, motives | World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war | World War, 1914-1918 -- IrelandDDC classification: 741.09415
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Nicola Gordon Bowe -- Myles Dungan.
Summary: Ireland's Memorial Records, 1914-1918 contain the names of 49,435 enlisted men who were killed in World War I. Commissioned in 1919 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the Records are notable for stunning and elaborate page decorations by celebrated Irish illustrator Harry Clarke. Drawing from published and unpublished sources, this ground-breaking study provides a fascinating insight into the work of Harry Clarke as an extraordinary war artist and examines the process that led to the Records being commissioned through to their eventual placement within the Irish National War Memorial at Islandbridge (Dublin).
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 741.09415 HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0089293
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Includes bibliographic references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Nicola Gordon Bowe -- Introduction -- Chapter I : things fall apart : art emerges from conflict -- Chapter II : art, cinema and war : Harry Clarke's Dublin -- Chapter III : art at the margins : illustrating 'Ireland's Memorial Records' -- Chapter IV : spaces of memory : 'Ireland's Memorial records' within the Irish National War Memorial Gardens -- Afterword / Myles Dungan.

Ireland's Memorial Records, 1914-1918 contain the names of 49,435 enlisted men who were killed in World War I. Commissioned in 1919 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the Records are notable for stunning and elaborate page decorations by celebrated Irish illustrator Harry Clarke. Drawing from published and unpublished sources, this ground-breaking study provides a fascinating insight into the work of Harry Clarke as an extraordinary war artist and examines the process that led to the Records being commissioned through to their eventual placement within the Irish National War Memorial at Islandbridge (Dublin).

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