[Rarebooks] FS: Modern Art in Ireland by Walker

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Walker, Dorothy.  MODERN ART IN IRELAND.

The Lilliput Press: 1997.

The Second World War brought many Irish artists back to their native soil 
and changed the course of 20th century Irish art, which up until then had 
been ruled by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the school of National 
Realism. In 1943, with founding of the Irish Expedition of Living Art, 
modernism reared its head, and Irish artists never looked back. Dorothy 
Walker's book begins at this moment, examines the pioneers who broke the 
new ground, and then surveys where Irish art has gone on to from there in 
the last half of the 20th century.

"The text is sumptuously illustrated with over 200 reproductions and 
installation shots, mostly in colour, of the works of all the important 
figures- from the Cubism of Jellet through the landscapes of Tony O'Malley 
and Camille Souter, the Expressionism of the late Jack B. Yeats and Patrick 
Graham, and the Pop art of Robert Ballagh and Michael Farrell, to the 
abstract painting of Felim Egan and Ciaran Lennon, the performance art of 
Nigel Rolfe, the surrealism of Dorothy Cross and the conceptual art of 
James Coleman and Kathy Prendergast. It constitutes a remarkable visual 
record of the past half-century of art in Ireland".

Hardcover. 9.5"x11.5", 239 pages, color and b/w illustrations, dj; a fine 
copy in a lightly rubbed jacket really very nice.  [08976]  $650.00


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