Art and the Nation State: The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland - Couverture souple

Kennedy, Roisin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1802075402 ISBN 13 : 9781802075403

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the end of the modernist era in the 1970s. Drawing on art works, media coverage, reviews, writings and the private papers of key Irish and international artists, critics and commentators including Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Clement Greenberg, James Johnson Sweeney, Herbert Read and Brian O’Doherty, the study explores the significant contribution of Irish modernist art to post-independence cultural debate and diverging notions of national Irish identity. Through an analysis of major controversies, the book examines how the reputations of major Irish artists was moulded by the prevailing demands of national identity, modernization and the dynamics of the international art world. Debate about the relevance of the work of leading international modernists such as the Irish-American sculptor, Andrew O’Connor, the French expressionist painter, Georges Rouault, the British sculptor Henry Moore and the Irish born, but ostensibly British, artist Francis Bacon to Irish cultural life is also analysed, as is the equally problematic positioning of Northern Irish artists.

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À propos de l'auteur

Róisín Kennedy, Assistant Professor, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1802075402
• ISBN 13: 9781802075403
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible