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From Ireland Coming, C. Hourihane edi: 1st Edition: Irish Art & History
From Ireland Coming, C. Hourihane edi: 1st Edition: Irish Art & History
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From Ireland Coming
Edited by Colum Hourihane.
Published by Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2001. First Edition. Colour printed paperback, 356 pages. Black & white illustration and photography throughout..
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Overall very good condition, very small tea stain to fore edge - see photos. No names or writing. Images crisp & clear throughout.
Lying at Europe's remote western edge, Ireland long has been seen as having an artistic heritage that owes little to influences beyond its borders.
This publication, the first to focus on Irish art from the eighth century A.D. to the end of the sixteenth century, challenges the idea that the best-known Irish monuments of that period - the high crosses, the Book of Kells, the Tara brooch, the round towers - reflect isolated Insular traditions. Seventeen essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do
have a place in the main currents of European art.
While this book reveals unexpected links between Ireland, Late Antique Italy, the Byzantine Empire, and the Anglo-Saxons, its center is always the artistic culture of Ireland itself. It includes new research on the Sheela-na-gigs, often thought to be merely erotic sculptures; on the larger cultural meanings of the Tuam Market Cross and its nineteenth-century re-erection; and on late medieval Irish stone crosses and metalwork. The emphasis on later monuments makes this one of the first volumes to deal with Irish art after the Norman invasion.
The contributors are Cormac Bourke, Mildred Budny, Tessa Garton, Peter Harbison, Jane Hawkes, Colum Hourihane, Catherine E. Karkov, Heather King, Susanne McNab, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Emmanuelle Pirotte, Roger Stalley, Kees Veelenturf, Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, Niamh Whitfield, Maggie McEnchroe Williams, and Susan Youngs.
Colum Hourihane is director of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University.
(Bindery shelves A4)
