The Tombs of a departed race : illustrations of Ireland's great hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan.
Alternate Title(s):
Illustrations of Ireland's great hunger
Published / Created:
Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac University Press, c2014.
Physical Description:
67 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The subject matter of real human suffering did not lend itself easily to art. Ireland's Great Hunger--the worst demographic catastrophe of the nineteenth century--coincided with the invention of new mass-market periodicals. This essay considers the aesthetic, historical, technical and contextual roles of British newspaper illustration in interpreting the story of the Famine. Niamh O'Sullivan examines how academically trained artists who had little experience of looking at unfiltered or distanced atrocity, became pictorial journalists and found new ways to image a trauma of unprecedented scale and horror.--back cover.
Contents:
Horrible suffering, utter penury -- Crawling skeletons -- Half-clad spectres -- The mirror of truth -- A mass of human putrifaction -- The triumph of pestilence and the feast of death -- The black hole of Calcutta -- Buried in the deep.
Subject Terms:
Starvation -- history -- Ireland. | History, 19th Century -- Ireland. | Human Migration -- history -- Ireland. | Medical illustration -- Ireland. | Newspapers -- History -- Ireland. | Social history -- history -- Ireland. | Famines -- Ireland. | Famines in art. | Hunger in art. | English newspapers -- History -- 19th century. | Graphic arts -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845–1852. | Ireland -- History -- 19th century.