Ireland's art, Ireland's history : representing Ireland, 1845 to present / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch.
Published / Created:
Omaha, Neb. : Creighton University Press, 2007.
Physical Description:
290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Irish art/Irish history : representing Ireland's identities -- A National Gallery for Ireland : issues of ideological significance -- Imaging the past : the marriage of Strongbow and Aoife : reconstruction and reality -- Framing the Irish : Victorian paintings of the Irish peasant -- Painting the West : the role of landscape in Irish identity -- Landscape, space, and gender : their role in the construction of female identity in newly independent Ireland -- The Church and the artist 1922-45 -- The Academy of Christian Art (1929-46) : an aspect of Catholic cultural life in newly independent Ireland -- Framing Ireland's history : art, politics, and representation 1914-29 -- "Executed" : the political commissions of Albert G. Power (1881-1945) -- Public monuments in Ireland (1840-1949) : barometers of political change -- Commemorating whose dead? : a study of two Irish gardens of remembrance -- Jack B. Yeats : "A pure and a mature expression of Irish nationalism in art" -- Revisionism, The Rising, and representation.
Subject Terms:
Art, Irish -- History. | Nationalism and art -- Ireland. | Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Ireland. | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Ireland. | Ireland -- Historiography.