The Routledge Companion to Irish Art

Introduction
Section 1: Tradition, innovation and the discourses of art
1. Philip McEvansoneya
A national body for the visual arts: the early history of the RHA 1823-1860
2. M.G. Sullivan
The Irish in the Sculptural Pantheon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1800-1922
3. Tim Barringer
Erin’s Harp: art and music in the long Nineteenth Century
4. Róisín Kennedy
The Cultural Revival
5. Joseph McBrinn
Artisans of the avant-garde: Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett and the decorative arts
6. Michael Connerty
Jack B. Yeats: painter, illustrator, and comic strip artist
7. Conor Linnie
Magazines and art in the mid-Twentieth Century
8. Riann Coulter and Jamie Blake Knox
The Ulster Unit: an avant-garde formation in the 1930s
9. Billy Shortall
Hilary Heron and mid-Twentieth Century modernist sculpture
Section 2: Art and the upheavals of history
10. Ruth Kenny
‘A holy union’: James Barry and the 1801 Act of Union
11. Niamh Ann Kelly
Images of the Famine: art, monuments and exhibitions from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-first Century
12. Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
Evictions and the Land Wars: visuality, technology and legacy
13. Anne Cormican
Painting History: William Orpen and the Great War
14. Gail Baylis and Sarah Edge
Photographing women: the Rising and after
15. Gavin Murphy
Unfinished business: Jack B. Yeats, modernity and the avant-garde
16. Declan Long
Art practice and the conflict in the North
17. Anthony Haughey
Troubling the Past in the Present: socially engaged art and the ‘Decade of Centenaries’
Section 3: Visualities
18. Niamh NicGhabhann
The Matter of the Past: modes of antiquarian representation
19. Fintan Cullen
The 1853 Dublin Exhibition and its imperial legacy
20. Órla Fitzpatrick
Photographing Dublin: the street photography of J.J. Clarke and Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave
21. Elaine Sisson
Tracing the artist-bohemian in Free State Dublin
22. Maura Coughlin
Women of the West
23. Kathryn Milligan
The White Stag Group, 1939-1946
24. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
Expressionism in the 1980s
25. Rachel Warriner
The Orchard Gallery, Derry: public practice during the 1980s
26. Kelly Sullivan
Making Strange: the climate crisis and recent art
Section 4: Art and the wider world: empire, diaspora and the postcolonial
27. Siobhan McDermott
Southern India, 1800-1816: conquest and contingency: two portraits by Thomas Hickey
28. Finola O’Kane
Poverty, Slavery and Empire: Honoré Daumier’s caricatures of Ireland, Great Britain,
Jamaica and France, 1844-1867
29. Angela Griffith
The Artist, The Book, and Picturing ‘The Other Country’: Walker’s Ireland (1905)
30. R.F.Foster
Hugh Lane and the Controversy over a Modern Art Gallery in Dublin
31. Catherine Marshall
Cross-reflections in a Cracked Mirror: trans-Atlantic influences on visual art, 1875-1950
32. Damian Smith
Sidney Nolan’s Irishness: a view from the Antipodes
33. Matt Retallick
Irish Artists in West Cornwall
34. Luke Gibbons
The Optical Illusion: Brian O’Doherty, Ireland and New York avant-garde
35. Lucy Cotter
Global Engagement and Modalities of Looking in the Work of Brian Maguire, Richard
Mosse, and Yuri Pattison.
Section 5: Embodiment and identity
36. Amélie Dochy
Caricatured Bodies and Victorian Mental Landscapes
37. Michael Waldron
Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Art
38. Fionna Barber
Hidden in Plain Sight: Estella Solomons’ portraits
39. Kate Antosik-Parsons
Embodiments in Feminist Art from the 1980s and Beyond
40. Brian Curtin
Queer Agency in the Making of Modern and Contemporary Art
41. Edwin Coomasaru
Gender and Sexuality in Northern Irish art from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit
42. Patrick Hickey
Beyond the Gable Walls: queering the work of Gerard Dillon
43. Sarah Kelleher
Sculpture in Transformation
44. EL Putnam
‘Thin as gold leaf’: gender, embodiment, and digital technologies

Biography

Fionna Barber is Reader in Art History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Fintan Cullen is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK.

 

"The Routledge Companion to Irish Art focuses on over 200 years of Irish visual culture, from the Act of Union to the present day. Arranged thematically, it provides new contextual, critical and theoretical insights. The 44 essays feature present new research by academics, curators and artists. This impressive compendium is organised across five sections: Tradition, innovation and the discourses of art; Art and the upheavals of history; Visualities; Art and the wider world: empire diaspora and the postcolonial; and Embodiment and identity. The essays span regional, national and transnational issues within the ever broadening discipline of visual culture."

 

-- Niamh O’Sullivan, National College of Art and Design, Dublin