Ghost-haunted land : contemporary art and post-troubles Northern Ireland / Declan Long.

By:

Long, Declan, 20./21.Jh

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Description: xi, 225 Seiten. : Illustrationen. ; 24 cmContent type:

Text

ISBN:

9781784991449
1784991449

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.416 LON

Abstract: Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land - the first book-length examination of post-Troubles contemporary art - Declan Long highlights artists who have reflected on the ongoing anxieties of aftermath. This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond - including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Willie Doherty. 'Post-Troubles' contemporary art is discussed in the context of both local transformations and global operations - and many of the main points of reference in the book come from broader debates about the place and purpose of contemporary art in today's world.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 -- the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' -- contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land -- the first book-length examination of post-Troubles contemporary art -- Declan Long highlights artists who have reflected on the ongoing anxieties of aftermath.

This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond -- including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Willie Doherty. 'Post-Troubles' contemporary art is discussed in the context of both local transformations and global operations -- and many of the main points of reference in the book come from broader debates about the place and purpose of contemporary art in today's world.

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land - the first book-length examination of post-Troubles contemporary art - Declan Long highlights artists who have reflected on the ongoing anxieties of aftermath. This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond - including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Willie Doherty. 'Post-Troubles' contemporary art is discussed in the context of both local transformations and global operations - and many of the main points of reference in the book come from broader debates about the place and purpose of contemporary art in today's world.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of plates page (p. vi)
List of figures (p. viii)
Acknowledgements (p. x)
Introduction (p. 1)
1 Same difference: post-Troubles contexts and contradictions (p. 16)
2 New terrains: 'Northern Irish art' in the wider world (p. 47)
3 The post-Troubles art of Willie Doherty (p. 89)
4 That which was: histories, documents, archives (p. 124)
5 Phantom publics: imagining ways of 'being together' (p. 169)
Conclusion - or against conclusions (p. 200)
Bibliography (p. 205)
Index (p. 219)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Declan Long is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, and Programme Director of the MA Art in the Contemporary World, at the National College of Art Design, Dublin.