THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IS IRELAND'S LEADING BODY OF EXPERTS IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann champions research. We identify and recognise Ireland’s world class researchers. We support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and the humanities enrich our lives and benefit society. We believe that good research needs to be promoted, sustained and communicated. The Academy is run by a Council of its members. Membership is by election and considered the highest academic honour in Ireland.

Read more about the RIA

Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume V: Twentieth Century

by  Catherine MarshallPeter Murray
€ 110.00

Book Details

Published by Royal Irish Academy

May 2015

ISBN: 9780300179231

An examination of the works of art created in twentieth century Ireland and the critical contexts from which they came. Focusing on painting, photography and new media, this volume considers the work of recent conceptual and digital artists as well as those who have used more traditional techniques. Definitive biographies of many of the key artists of the era are included, and the volume also addresses the main political and social issues that lay behind twentieth-century Irish art. Through its many fine illustrations, it recreates the vibrancy of the art world of the period.

This volume is also available on JSTOR. For more information, institutions can visit Books at JSTOR.

About the authors

Catherine Marshall

Catherine Marshall is a curator and art historian. She lectured in art history at Trinity College Dublin, the National College of Art and Design and University College Dublin. As founding head of collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art she curated exhibitions of outsider art from the Musgrave Kinley Collection, exhibitions of Irish art in China, USA and the UK and throughout Ireland with the IMMA National Programme, and was curator to the Engagement project, which brought together artists from the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent, Callan, with artists from widely differing mainstream practices for a series of exhibitions 2013–21. She co-edited Art and architecture of Ireland, vol. 5, Twentieth century (2014) and Janet Mullarney (2019). She is an active member of Na Cailleacha (Na Cailleacha.weebly.com). In 2019 she was recipient of the first honorary doctorate in the History of Art from University College Dublin.

Peter Murray

Peter Murray is director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, and a member of the National Council of Cultural Institutions. He has published widely, in addition to curating many exhibitions of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish art.