Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood

Ireland on Show: Art, Union, and Nationhood
ISBN-10
1409431096
ISBN-13
9781409431091
Category
Art
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Fintan Cullen

Description

Ireland on Show analyses the impact of the display of art as a significant political and cultural feature in the make-up of nineteenth-century Ireland-and in how Ireland was viewed beyond its own shores, in particular in Great Britain and the United States. This study moves beyond museums, to address the range of art institutions in Irish cities that displayed art, from the Royal Hibernian Academy, founded in the 1820s, to Hugh Lane's Municipal Art Gallery, opened in Dublin in 1908. By highlighting the tension between unionist and nationalist viewpoints, Cullen uses the display of art to investigate the complexities of Irish cultural life before the founding of the Free State.

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