Irish Art Masterpieces
Author: Catherine Marshall
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief history of Irish art masterpieces offers many fine illustrations.
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Treasures of Early Irish Art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0870991647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Art of Robert Costelloe
Author: Patricia McCabe (Art historian)
Publisher:
Published: 2018-02-21
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781388850968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe short but brilliant career as sculptor and painter of the Irish artist Robert Costelloe included periods in New York, North Carolina, Rome and London. His tragic death in 1974 at the age of 31 ended the career of an artist whose creativity and diversity merited a high profile in Irish art of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the recipient of various awards at home and abroad and his volume of work includes drawings, paintings, ceramics and sculpture, examples of which are in important collections in Ireland and abroad. His pictures are abstract paintings with colour and form as subjects and are unusually large for the period. Costelloe also created a varied collection of abstract outdoor sculptures which continue to be exhibited in Ireland and America. Yet due to his early death and the widely dispersed nature of his works, many of which are monumental in size, Costelloe has remained almost unknown to the artistic world. In this critical work Dr. Patricia McCabe has assembled and illustrated over a hundred works by Costelloe, and pieced together his brilliant but short artistic career. This book is intended to place Costelloe among the pioneers of modern Irish art of the late twentieth century.
Art and the Nation State
Author: Róisín Kennedy
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1789622352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt 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.
Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
Author: Éimear O'Connor
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781788551496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora reveals a labyrinth of social and cultural connections that conspired to create and sustain an image of Ireland for the nation and for the Irish diaspora between 1893 and 1939. This era saw an upsurge of interest among patrons and collectors in New York and Chicago in the 'Irishness' of Irish art, which was facilitated by gallery owners, émigrés, philanthropists, and art-world celebrities. Leading Irish art historian, Éimear O'Connor, explores the ongoing tensions between those in Ireland and the expatriate community in the US, split as they were between tradition and modernity, and between public expectation and political rhetoric, as Ireland sought to forge a post-Treaty international identity through its visual artists. Featuring a glittering cast of players including Jack. B. Yeats, George Russell (AE), Lady Gregory, and Seán Keating, and richly illustrated in colour with images from archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora presents a wealth of new research, and draws together, for the first time, a series of themes that bound the Dublin art scene with that in New York and Chicago through complex networks and contemporary publications at an extraordinary time in Ireland's history.
The Artist's Garden
Author: Jackie Bennett
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1781318743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Artist’s Garden will feature up to 20 gardens that have inspired and been home to some of the greatest painters of history. These gardens not only supplied the inspiration for creative works but also illuminate the professional motivation and private life of the artists themselves – from Cezanne’s house in the south of France to Childe Hassam at Celia Thaxter’s garden off the coast off Maine. Flowers and gardens have often been the first choice for artists looking for a subject. A garden close to the artist’s studio is not only convenient for daily material and ideas, but also has the advantage of changing through the seasons and over time. Claude Monet’s Giverny was the catalyst for hundreds of great paintings (by Monet and other artists), each one different from the one before. Sometimes a whole village becomes the focus for a colony of artists as at Gerberoy in Picardy and Skagen on the northernmost tip of Denmark. This book is about the real homes and gardens that inspired these great artists – gardens that can still be visited today. The relationship between artist and garden is a complex one. A few artists, including Pierre Bonnard and his neighbour Monet were keen gardeners, as much in love with their plants as their work, while for others like Sorolla in Madrid, his courtyard home was both a sanctuary and a source of ideas.
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks
Author: Fintan O'Toole
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908996923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.
Irish Tweed
Author: Vawn Corrigan
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1788492013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'To be human is to be involved with cloth.' Irish Tweed explores the history, the traditions, the patterns, the fashions and the legacy of Ireland's distinctive, natural woven fabric. Arising from ancient woven traditions of brat (cloak), léine (tunic), linen and poplin, tweed has evolved and reinvented itself many times to weave its beautiful lasting way into our future fashions and psyche.
Dublin by Design
Author: Sandra O'Connell
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Published: 2021-01-09
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781788491679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of the development of Dublin, and the possibilities for its evolution into the future. The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) have commissioned acknowledged experts to explore Dublin's evolution across a range of topics, with a particular focus on its role as the capital city since independence 100 years ago, as well as on architectural planning and administration. Chapters include - Mary Clark: Civitas to Metropolis, the governance of Dublin since 1192 - Gr inne Shaffrey on Sackville St/O'Connell St - Freddie Dwyer: City of Industry. Iveagh Markets, Four Courts etc - Tony Reddy: City of Opportunity. IFSC, Heuston Quarter, Smithfield - Frank McDonald: destruction of Dublin, Temple Bar - Shane O Toole: arts and the city - Ciaran Cuffe: transport - Paul de Freine: The Healthy City. Hospitals and healthcare - Lorcan Sirr: housing success from failure - anna n Lamhna: The Green City - Sean O'Laoire: The Place of Culture Heavily illustrated with plans, drawings and photographs.
