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Ireland, design and visual culture : negotiating modernity, 1922-1992 / edited by Linda King, Elaine Sisson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cork : Cork University Press, 2010.Description: 300 p. : illISBN:
  • 1859184723 (hbk.)
  • 9781859184721 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.449 KIN
Summary: This is the first comprehensive collection of essays on Irish design and visual culture which draws from interdisciplinary fields to address design history as an emergent field in Irish studies. The volume also explores the contribution of the visual and cultural analyses to an understanding of Irish historiography.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ireland, Design and Visual Culture is an edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the subject of design and visual culture in Ireland from 1922 to the early 1990s. The essays, written from different disciplinary and academic perspectives, explore the tensions inherent in the visualization of the newly emergent State from the 1920s. The book explores the shaping of Irish modernity within varied visual discourses--architecture, advertising, currency, illustration, industrial design, print ephemera, public spectacle and theatre design--within an international context and suggests that Irish society was more open to European and American visual and cultural influence than has previously been considered.

This is the first comprehensive collection of essays on Irish design and visual culture which draws from interdisciplinary fields to address design history as an emergent field in Irish studies. The volume also explores the contribution of the visual and cultural analyses to an understanding of Irish historiography.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Introduction: Materiality, Modernity and the Shaping of Identity
  • Experimentalism and the Irish Stage: Theatre and German Expressionism in the 1920s
  • Technology and modernity: the Shannon Scheme and visions of national progress
  • Nationality and Representation: the Coinage Design Committee (1926-8) and the formation of a design identity in the Irish Free State
  • An Gúm, The Free State and the Politics of the Irish Language
  • Republic of Virtue: the campaign against evil literature and the assertion of Catholic moral authority in Free State Ireland
  • Vanishing Borders: the representation of political partition in the Free State 1922-1949
  • Funereal black trucks advertising Guinness The St PatrickâÇÖs Day Industrial Pageant
  • (De)constructing the Tourist Gaze: Dutch Influences and Aer Lingus Tourism Posters, 1951-1961
  • Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Kilkenny Design Workshops and selling `goodâÇÖ design at American department store promotions, 1967-76
  • From Dublin To Chicago and back again: An exploration of the influence of Americanised Modernism on the culture of DublinâÇÖs architecture 1945 - 1975
  • The Ephemera of Eternity: the Irish Catholic memorial card as material culture
  • Celtic Revivals: Jim Fitzpatrick and the Celtic Imaginary in Irish and International Popular Culture

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