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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 reputat...
Since the 1960s the role of the visual arts in society has undergone major change. Here are oral histories on Irish art and the infrastructure on which it developed since 1950. Each interview is structured to bring out the most in the interviewee resulting in a unique compilation, historically important but humanly engaging. It presents a very good picture of behind-the-scenes concerns in Irish art over 50 years.
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