The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s

by Juncosa, Enrique; Kennedy, Christina

• ISBN13: 9781907020490
• ISBN10: 1907020497
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Irish artists and writers played a leading role in the story of modernism, and The Moderns traces modernism's development through Ireland's art in the period from the 1900s to the 1970s.Proceeding with the recognition that art forms are not mutually exclusive, and that creative persons across disciplines talk to one another, The Moderns brings together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture, photography and film, architecture, literature, music and design of Irish significance from the twentieth century. Here, the paintings of Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone and other advocates of European modernism are juxtaposed with the accomplishments of designer-architect Eileen Gray and writer James Joyce. The works and influence of John Millington Synge, Paul Henry and the Yeats family are traced as far as the art of Klee and Picasso, among others. After World War II, the impact of the ground breaking ROSC exhibitions in the 1960s and 70s, and of Minimal and Conceptual art, in the works of Brian O'Doherty, Barry Flanagan and Michael Craig-Martin, is also examined. The Moderns declares what we know to be the case, but which few publications have examined-that the arts of the past century owe Ireland some of their greatest works.