1st Edition
Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States
Taking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States.
Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, photography and exhibitions from the nineteenth century to the present, the depth of the relationship between the two countries, as well as its complexity, is revealed.
The book is intended for all who are interested in Irish/American interconnectedness and will be of particular interest to scholars and students of art history, visual culture, history, Irish studies and American studies.
Introduction
Cynthia Fowler
1. Desperate and Glorious: John Mulvany’s Custer’s Last Rally
Niamh O’Sullivan
2. ‘An American and Not an Irish statue’: Commemorating Naval Hero Commodore John Barry
Paula Murphy
3. Some thoughts on Arthur Kingsley Porter and Françoise Henry as Transcultural Pioneers of Early Irish Medieval Art
Lynda Mulvin
4. Irish Art at the Armory Show, 1913
Róisín Kennedy
5. Seeing New York: Jack Butler Yeats and the American City
Kathryn Milligan
6. 'This New Life of Painting': Morris Graves in Ireland, 1954–64
Danielle M. Knapp
7. Ireland’s ‘Strayed Angel’: George W. Russell (AE) – From Dublin to New York, 1904–1934
Éimear O’Connor
8. Dorothea Lange in Ireland: Anthropology and Image
James R. Swensen
9. Sean Scully: Painting a Global Immigrant’s Vision
Kaitlin Thurlow
10. Transnational Solidarity: African American and Irish Intersections in Public Art Commemorating Frederick Douglass
Cynthia Fowler
11. Kathy Prendergast: Transcultural Cartography
Yvonne Scott
12. Uncommon Kinships: The Generous Reciprocity of the Choctaw Nation and Ireland
Laura Marshall Clark (Muscogee Creek)
Biography
Cynthia Fowler is Professor of Art at Emmanuel College, Boston.
Paula Murphy is Professor Emerita at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin.
