Irish women artists, 1800-2009 : familiar but unknown / Éimear O'Connor, editor.

By:

O,Connor Eimear

Contributor(s):

O'Connor, Éimear

Material type: Text

TextSeries: TRIARC research studies in Irish art ; 3.Publication details: Dublin : Four Courts, c2010.Description: 224 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:

1846822505 (hbk.)
9781846822506 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.415 FEM

Contents:

Introduction / Éimear O'Connor -- 'The liveliest of the living painters': women and the visual arts in Ireland / Catherine Marshall -- Miss Battersby (fl. 1801-41) : a case study / Éimear O'Connor -- In a class of her own : Louisa, marchioness of Waterford / Myles Campbell -- Gender and the decorative arts : Evelyn Gleeson and the Irish Cultural Revival / Karen E. Brown -- Margaret Clarke as a history painter : Strindbergian (1927) / Carla Briggs -- Sr Concepta Lynch OP (1874-1939) : a unique contribution to Irish art / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch -- Flowers in the attic : recovering the reputation of a forgotten Irish flower painter : Moyra Barry (1885-1960) / Jane Eckett -- Nano Reid : from the Boyne to Bohemia / Riann Coulter -- Gabriel Hayes (1909-78), sculptor / Paula Murphy -- Lhote's wives--scapegoating women artists, 1962-84 / Róisín Kennedy -- Re(writing) the domestic into the everyday / Jane Humphries -- Notes and queries / Una Walker.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.415 FEM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100401497

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This collection of essays reveals the life, work, and context of familiar but previously little-known Irish women artists. Contents include: writing Irish women's lives 1800-1950 * Moyra Barry (1885-1960), a forgotten flower painter * Miss Kennedy (c.1830), female sculptor * Miss Battersby's watercolors (c.1801-40) * Louisa, marchioness of Waterford (1818-91) * Anne Acheson (1882-1962) * Evelyn Gleeson and the Irish cultural revival * Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) * Gabriel Hayes (1909-78), an Irish sculptor * Margaret Clarke's history paintings * Nano Reid (1905-81) * (re)writing the domestic into the everyday * scapegoating women artists (1962-84) * women's art practice, modernity, and the hierarchies of 20th-century Irish art * statistical data in bringing women artists in from the margins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations (p. 7)
List of Abbrevitions (p. 10)
Foreword (p. 11)
Acknowledgments (p. 17)
Introduction (p. 19)
'The liveliest of the living painters': women and the visual arts in Ireland (p. 28)
Miss Battersby (fl.1801-41): a case study (p. 37)
In a class of her own: Louisa, marchioness of Waterford (p. 58)
Gender and the decorative arts: Evelyn Gleeson and the Irish Cultural Revival (p. 71)
Margaret Clarke as a history painter: Strindbergian (1927) (p. 84)
Sr Concepta Lynch OP (1874-1939): a unique contribution to Irish art (p. 102)
Flowers in the attic: recovering the reputation of a forgotten Irish flower painter: Moyra Barry (1885-1960) (p. 115)
Nano Reid: from the Boyne to Bohemia (p. 134)
Gabriel Hayes (I909-78), sculptor (p. 152)
Lhote's wives - scapegoating women artists, 1962-84 (p. 168)
Re(writing) the domestic into the everyday (p. 179)
Notes and queries (p. 196)
List of Contributors (p. 211)
List of Artists Mentioned in the Text (p. 215)
Index (p. 219)