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Book Synopsis Lord Charlemont and His Circle by : Michael J. McCarthy
Download or read book Lord Charlemont and His Circle written by Michael J. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book derive largely from a symposium held to celebrate the bicentenary of the death of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), politician, traveller, connoisseur and patron of the arts. -- Publisher description.
Download or read book Ireland on Show written by Fintan Cullen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking past the apparent lack of a sustainable Irish display culture, this book demonstrates that there is a very full story to tell of the way Ireland displayed its art from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Ireland on Show analyzes the impact of the display of art as a significant political and cultural feature in the make-up of nineteenth-century Ireland - and in how Ireland was viewed beyond its own shores, in particular in Great Britain and the United States. Fintan Cullen directs much-needed critical attention and analysis to a subject that has been largely overlooked from an Irish perspective. This study moves beyond museums, to address the range of art institutions in Irish cities that displayed art, from the Royal Hibernian Academy, founded in the 1820s, to Hugh Lane's Municipal Art Gallery, opened in Dublin in 1908. Throughout, the book explores the battle between the display of a unionist ethos and a nationalist point of view, a constant that resurfaces over the period. By highlighting the tension between unionist and nationalist viewpoints, Cullen uses the display of art to investigate the complexities of Irish cultural life before the founding of the Free State.
Download or read book Then and Now written by Joan Coutu and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals. By charting this changing preference within a broader study of material culture, Joan Coutu examines the evolving articulation of the English gentleman. Then and Now consists of four case studies of mid-century collections. Three were amassed by young aristocrats - the Marquis of Rockingham, the Duke of Richmond, and the Earl of Huntingdon - who, consistent with their social standing, were touted as natural political leaders. Their collections evoke the concept of gentlemanly virtue through example, offering archetypes to encourage men toward acts of public virtue. As the aristocrats matured in the politically fractious realm of the 1760s, such virtue could become politicized. A fourth study focuses on Thomas Hollis, who used his collection to proselytize his own unique political ideology. Framed by studies of collecting practices earlier and later in the century, Coutu also explores the fluid temporal relationship with the classical past as the century progressed, firmly situating the discussion within the contemporaneous emerging field of aesthetics. Broadening the focus beyond published texts to include aesthetic conversations among the artists and the aristocracy in Italy and England, Then and Now shows how an aesthetic canon emerged - embodied in the Apollo Belvedere, the Venus de’ Medici, and the like - which shaped the Grand Manner of art.
Download or read book Dublin written by David Dickson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin has experienced great—and often astonishing—change in its 1,400 year history. It has been the largest urban center on a deeply contested island since towns first appeared west of the Irish Sea. There have been other contested cities in the European and Mediterranean world, but almost no European capital city, David Dickson maintains, has seen sharper discontinuities and reversals in its history—and these have left their mark on Dublin and its inhabitants. Dublin occupies a unique place in Irish history and the Irish imagination. To chronicle its vast and varied history is to tell the story of Ireland. David Dickson’s magisterial history brings Dublin vividly to life beginning with its medieval incarnation and progressing through the neoclassical eighteenth century, when for some it was the “Naples of the North,” to the Easter Rising that convulsed a war-weary city in 1916, to the bloody civil war that followed the handover of power by Britain, to the urban renewal efforts at the end of the millennium. He illuminates the fate of Dubliners through the centuries—clergymen and officials, merchants and land speculators, publishers and writers, and countless others—who have been shaped by, and who have helped to shape, their city. He reassesses 120 years of Anglo-Irish Union, during which Dublin remained a place where rival creeds and politics struggled for supremacy. A book as rich and diverse as its subject, Dublin reveals the intriguing story behind the making of a capital city.
Book Synopsis A Compendium of Irish Biography by : Alfred Webb
Download or read book A Compendium of Irish Biography written by Alfred Webb and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the life and times of Henry Grattan by : Henry Grattan
Download or read book Memoirs of the life and times of Henry Grattan written by Henry Grattan and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan by : Henry Grattan (the Younger.)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan written by Henry Grattan (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan by : Henry Grattan
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan written by Henry Grattan and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Warm South written by Robert Holland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons--including many painters and poets--who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.
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Book Synopsis The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland by : James Roderick O'Flanagan
Download or read book The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland written by James Roderick O'Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760 by : R. Usher
Download or read book Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760 written by R. Usher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources.
Book Synopsis The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith by : John Forster
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith written by John Forster and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.
Book Synopsis The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland by : J. Roderick O'Flanagan
Download or read book The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland written by J. Roderick O'Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
