Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising - Couverture rigide

 
9781781381229: Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising
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ISBN 10 : 1781381224 ISBN 13 : 9781781381229
Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term - an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising - from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards - have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of rubble from Dublin's General Post Office, and 'official' souvenirs such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the construction of individual and collective memory. In placing material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are caught up in processes of identity production in both public and private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the 'things' of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of identity and the creation of social memory.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Godson is Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Joanna Bruck is Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.

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Éditeur
Liverpool University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781381224
ISBN 13 
9781781381229
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Godson Lisa, Brück Joanna
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Personne responsable
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