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

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 Toibin; 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.…