When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland

Steward, James Christen (Edited by); with Arnold, Bruce, et al. (Essays by)

ISBN 10: 1858940745 / ISBN 13: 9781858940748

Published by Merrell Holberton Publishers; Berkeley Art Museum, London and Berkeley, CA, 1998

About this Item

288 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 30 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 16 October 1998 to 10 January 1999; Berkeley Art Museum, 10 February to 1 May 1999; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 25 May to 24 July 1999; Barbican Art Gallery, London, September to December 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "History of twentieth-century figurative painting in Ireland as relates to Irish political and historical development." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The Irishness of Irish painting, by James Christen Steward; Public, private, and a national spirit, by Colm Toi bi n; Some men and a picture, by Kenneth McConkey; Framing Irelsnd's history: art, politics, and representation, 1914-1929, by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch; Jack Yeats and the making of Irish art in the twentieth century, by Bruce Arnold; Irish women painters and the introduction of modernism, by Marianne Hartigan; Irish painting, tradition and post-war internationalism, by Peter Murray; Madonna and maiden, mistress and mother: woman as symbol of Ireland and spirit of the nation, by Paula Murphy; Politics, by Aidan Dunne; Strategic representations: notes on Irish art since the 1980s, by Caoimhi n Mac Golla Leith; Catalogue, by John Losito and James Steward. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland
• Publisher: Merrell Holberton Publishers; Berkeley Art Museum, London and Berkeley, CA
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858940745
• ISBN 13: 9781858940748
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • European::8. Modern, 1900-1945
  • European::British & Irish
  • XXXL: Jumbo
  • European::9. Contemporary
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition WHEN TIME BEGAN TO RANT AND RAGE: FIGURATIVE PAINTING FROM TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND which took place at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, and the Grey Art Gallery in London from October 1998 to December 1999.