Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: True Nature by Willie Doherty

This week’s Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks is True Nature by Willie Doherty.

Riann Coulter writes in The Irish Times:

‘Commissioned by The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and first exhibited there in 1999, True Nature marked a thematic departure for Doherty from works rooted in the Troubles. It features journalistic video footage of interviews that Doherty conducted in Chicago with second- and third-generation Irish-Americans, who had never visited Ireland’. 

An essay on Willie Doherty appears in Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume V: Twentieth Century. Read the entry here.

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