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Publication : “Creating History : Stories of Ireland in Art”.

ROONEY Brendan, Creating History : Stories of Ireland in Art, Newbridge, Irish Academic Press, 2016.

ROONEY Brendan, Creating History : Stories of Ireland in Art, Newbridge, Irish Academic Press, 2016.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

Upon leaving the National Gallery in Dublin during Easter week 1916, its registrar James Stephens was struck by ‘the rumour of death and war’ that gripped the air; one hundred years on, the National Gallery will evaluate these seismic historical events in its principal contribution to Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries in both a powerful new exhibition and stunning book, Creating History: Stories of Ireland in Art.

The National Gallery’s exhibition comprises 54 paintings spanning the 17th century to the 1930s, depicting or inspired by episodes in Irish history from the arrival of St Patrick to the establishment of the Free State. Jan Wyck, James Wheatley, John Lavery, Sean Keating, William Orpen and Jack B. Yeats are some of the major artists represented—their masterworks are lavishly reproduced to stunning effect alongside essays from today’s leading art critics. The exemplary contributors to feature – among them Tom Dunne, Ruth Kenny, Róisín Kennedy and Roy Foster – deliver fascinating assessments that situate the Easter Rising and Ireland’s claim to independence through the historical significance and aesthetic value of Ireland’s major artistic works. While the exhibition will run from 8 October 2016 to 17 January 2017, Creating History : Stories of Ireland in Art is set to be the National Gallery’s enduring tribute to the events of 1916, and will constitute a lasting legacy.

Sommaire :

‘‘If the artist be as national as the minstrel’: Irish History on Display’ – Brendan Rooney, National Gallery of Ireland.
‘History Painting: the Depiction of Conflict in Irish Art’ – Ruth Kenny, Irish Georgian Society & University College Dublin.
‘Creating Order? Painting the Crowd in nineteenth-century Ireland’ – Mary Jane Boland, University College Cork.
‘The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife: Entertaining History in the Interests of the State’ – Tom Dunne, University College Cork.
‘Art and Uncertainty: Painting in Ireland 1912-1932’ – Róisín Kennedy, University College Dublin.
‘The Persistence of Vision: Picturing Eviction in the Nineteenth Century’ – Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, University College Dublin.
‘“The Occupation of Living”: Jack Yeats and the Irish Revolution’ – Roy Foster, University of Oxford.

Brendan Rooney is Curator of Irish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, and author/editor of numerous works on Irish art, including Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-century Ireland (2009) and A Time and a Place: Two Centuries of Irish Social Life (2006).

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Maxime Georges Métraux (14 octobre 2016). Publication : “Creating History : Stories of Ireland in Art”. Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 5 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p68x


Maxime Georges Métraux

Doctorant en Histoire de l'art moderne (Université Paris IV –Sorbonne, Centre André Chastel – UMR 8150). Expert pour la galerie Hubert Duchemin et chargé d’enseignement à l'Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Commissaire scientifique de l’exposition "Chic Emprise : Cultures, usages et sociabilités du tabac du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle" (22 juin - 23 septembre 2019) au musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle.

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