Routledge Companion to Irish Art

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

• Introduction Section 1: Tradition, innovation and the discourses of art 1. A national body for the visual arts: the early history of the RHA 1823-1860 2. The Irish in the Sculptural Pantheon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1800-1922 3. Erin’s Harp: art and music in the long Nineteenth Century 4. The Cultural Revival 5. Artisans of the avant-garde: Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett and the decorative arts 6. Jack B. Yeats: painter, illustrator, and comic strip artist 7. Magazines and art in the mid-Twentieth Century 8. The Ulster Unit: an avant-garde formation in the 1930s 9. Hilary Heron and mid-Twentieth Century modernist sculpture Section 2: Art and the upheavals of history 10. ‘A holy union’: James Barry and the 1801 Act of Union 11. Images of the Famine: art, monuments and exhibitions from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-first Century 12. Evictions and the Land Wars: visuality, technology and legacy 13. Painting History: William Orpen and the Great War 14. Photographing women: the Rising and after 15. Unfinished business: Jack B. Yeats, modernity and the avant-garde 16. Art practice and the conflict in the North 17. Troubling the Past in the Present: socially engaged art and the ‘Decade of Centenaries’ Section 3: Visualities 18. The Matter of the Past: modes of antiquarian representation 19. The 1853 Dublin Exhibition and its imperial legacy 20. Photographing Dublin: the street photography of J.J. Clarke and Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave 21. Tracing the artist-bohemian in Free State Dublin 22. Women of the West 23. The White Stag Group, 1939-1946 24. Expressionism in the 1980s 25. The Orchard Gallery, Derry: public practice during the 1980s 26. Making Strange: the climate crisis and recent art Section 4: Art and the wider world: empire, diaspora and the postcolonial 27. Southern India, 1800-1816: conquest and contingency: two portraits by Thomas Hickey 28. Poverty, Slavery and Empire: Honoré Daumier’s caricatures of Ireland, Great Britain,Jamaica and France, 1844-1867 29. The Artist, The Book, and Picturing ‘The Other Country’: Walker’s Ireland (1905) 30. Hugh Lane and the Controversy over a Modern Art Gallery in Dublin 31. Cross-reflections in a Cracked Mirror: trans-Atlantic influences on visual art, 1875-1950 32. Sidney Nolan’s Irishness: a view from the Antipodes 33. Irish Artists in West Cornwall 34. The Optical Illusion: Brian O’Doherty, Ireland and New York avant-garde 35. Global Engagement and Modalities of Looking in the Work of Brian Maguire, RichardMosse, and Yuri Pattison. Section 5: Embodiment and identity 36. Caricatured Bodies and Victorian Mental Landscapes 37. Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Art 38. Hidden in Plain Sight: Estella Solomons’ portraits 39. Embodiments in Feminist Art from the 1980s and Beyond 40. Queer Agency in the Making of Modern and Contemporary Art 41. Gender and Sexuality in Northern Irish art from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit42. Beyond the Gable Walls: queering the work of Gerard Dillon 43. Sculpture in Transformation 44. ‘Thin as gold leaf’: gender, embodiment, and digital technologies