Full Description
Taking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States.
Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, photography and exhibitions from the nineteenth century to the present, the depth of the relationship between the two countries, as well as its complexity, is revealed.
The book is intended for all who are interested in Irish/American interconnectedness and will be of particular interest to scholars and students of art history, visual culture, history, Irish studies and American studies.
Contents
Introduction, 1. Desperate and Glorious: John Mulvany's Custer's Last Rally, 2. 'An American and Not an Irish statue': Commemorating Naval Hero Commodore John Barry, 3. Some thoughts on Arthur Kingsley Porter and Françoise Henry as Transcultural Pioneers of Early Irish Medieval Art, 4. Irish Art at the Armory Show, 1913, 5. Seeing New York: Jack Butler Yeats and the American City, 6. 'This New Life of Painting': Morris Graves in Ireland, 1954-64, 7. Ireland's 'Strayed Angel': George W. Russell (AE) - From Dublin to New York, 1904-1934, 8. Dorothea Lange in Ireland: Anthropology and Image, 9. Sean Scully: Painting a Global Immigrant's Vision, 10. Transnational Solidarity: African American and Irish Intersections in Public Art Commemorating Frederick Douglass, 11. Kathy Prendergast: Transcultural Cartography, 12. Uncommon Kinships: The Generous Reciprocity of the Choctaw Nation and Ireland
