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Author : Donal Maguire
Release : 2019
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shaping Ireland by : Donal Maguire
Download or read book Shaping Ireland written by Donal Maguire. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet McLean
Release : 2014-10-14
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 231/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art by : Janet McLean
Download or read book Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art written by Janet McLean. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, celebrated Irish writers find inspiration in its magnificent collection In 1864 the National Gallery of Ireland opened to the public in Dublin. It then housed just 112 paintings. Today the gallery holds over 15,000 works of European art and is notable both for its extensive collection of Irish art and its Italian baroque and Dutch masters paintings. For this anthology, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, fifty-six Irish writers have contributed short stories, essays, and poems inspired by pictures in the collection. These literary responses to art are by turns profound, playful, and insightful. Authors include acclaimed figures in contemporary Irish literature, such as Colm Tóibín, John Banville, John Boyne, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney. The pictures that the writers have selected are intriguingly diverse. They range from old master paintings by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Velázquez to works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre Bonnard, as well as works by Irish artists such as Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, Gerard Dillon, and Paul Henry. The book is organized alphabetically by writer and each text is illustrated with the chosen work in color. Edited with preface by Janet McLean, Curator of European Art 1850–1950 at the NGI.
Author : Brendan Rooney
Release : 2016
Genre : Art, Irish
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Book Rating : 286/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Creating History by : Brendan Rooney
Download or read book Creating History written by Brendan Rooney. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is to coincide with the National Gallery's exhibiton of the same name. With chapters from leading Irish historians, including Roy Foster, Tom Dunne and Raoisain Kennedy, 'Creating History' delivers 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.
Author : Joseph Mallord William Turner
Release : 2000
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis J. M. W. Turner by : Joseph Mallord William Turner
Download or read book J. M. W. Turner written by Joseph Mallord William Turner. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool 23 June - 1 October 2000.
Author : Mark Evans
Release : 2018-08-14
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Constable's Skies by : Mark Evans
Download or read book Constable's Skies written by Mark Evans. This book was released on 2018-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, gift-sized volume celebrating Constable’s enduring fascination and engagement with the sky John Constable was one of the supreme painters of the weather, and his depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings that are all sky; the landscape beneath is completely absent. In a letter to friend John Fisher, written in 1821, Constable commented, “That landscape painter who does not make his skies a very material part of his composition, neglects to avail himself of one of his greatest aids . . . It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.” Written by Mark Evans, a leading authority on the work of John Constable, and brimming with beautiful images, Constable’s Skies captures the artist’s fascination with the sky and brings together his depictions of the English weather from throughout his career. The unprecedented fidelity of Constable’s painted skies is proven by reference to contemporary weather diaries. The book also includes a guide to where to find Constable’s work around the world.
