Éire/land
By: edited by Vera Kreilkamp.
Contributors: Kreilkamp, Vera.; McMullen Museum of Art.; Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
Publisher: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chestnut Hill, MA; [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Landscape in art -- Exhibitions; Art, Irish -- Exhibitions; Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Ireland -- In art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.; In art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition Éire/Land held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Feb. 2-May 19, 2003.
Paintings in the exhibiton were ... produced by Fellows at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation ... that brings American and Irish artists to live and work in Ballycastle, Ireland.
Table of contents: title: Editor's dedication : Adele Dalsimer, 1939-2000 / Vera Kreilkamp; title: Director's preface / Nancy Netzer; title: "Bogland" / Seamus Heaney; title: Introduction : toward a history of the Irish landscape / Marjorie Howes and Kevin O'Neill; title: The turn to the map : cartographic fictions in Irish culture / Claire Connolly; title: Making and remaking the Irish landscape in the early Middle Ages / Robin Fleming; title: Shaping and mis-shaping : visual impressions of Ireland in three illuminated manuscripts / Michelle P. Brown; title: Art/full ground : unearthing national identity and an early medieval "golden age" / Nancy Netzer; title: Sacred landscapes and ancient rituals : two watercolors by George Petrie / Pamela Berger; title: Observing Irish romantic landscape painting / Katherine Nahum; title: Painting Mayo's landscape : the big house, the pleasure grounds, and the mills / Vera Kreilkamp; title: Visualizing the famine in County Mayo / Margaret Preston; title: "The land for the people" : post-famine images of eviction / L. Perry Curtis, Jr.; title: "The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland" : the politics of land in Irish visual imagery 1850-1936 / Robert Savage; title: Painting the west : the role of landscape in Irish identity / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch; title: Exploring place and artistic practice in Northern Mayo / Alston Conley; title: The art of Dinnseanchas : excavating the storied past of place / Lisabeth C. Buchelt; title: Responding today : dis/location and the land / Kate; title: Costello-Sullivan; title: From icon to index : some contemporary visions of the Irish stone cottage / Robin Lydenberg.