Architecture 1600-2000 : Art and Architecture of Ireland / Volume Four./ Rolf Loeber, Hugh Campbell, Livia Hurley, John Montague and Ellen Rowley (Editors) / Royal Irish Academy.

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press 2014.Description: 2928 pagesISBN:

9780300179224
0300179243

Other title:

Art and architecture of Ireland . 5 vols. Andrew Carpenter

Subject(s):

Architecture -- Ireland -- 1600-1900

DDC classification:

709.415 RIA

Contents:

Vol. 1 Medieval, c. 400-c. 1600 / Rachel Moss, ed.

Vol. 2 Painting, 1600-1900 / Nicola Figgis, ed.

Vol. 3 Sculpture, 1600-2000 / Paula Murphy, ed.

Vol. 4 Architecture, 1600-2000 / Rolf Loeber [and others], eds.

Vol. 5 Twentieth Century / Catherine Marshall [and others], eds.

Summary: This title provides an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Each volume has its own expert editor or editorial team and covers a specific area or chronological period. More than 250 scholars from around the world, who represent a broad range of disciplines, contribute texts that range from thematic and general to articles on techniques and historical developments, biographical entries, bibliographies, lists of artists, and comprehensive indexes. Historical documentation combines with the best of current scholarship to make this the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking of its kind. The volumes will explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture - from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolours and sculptures to photographs, oil paintings, video art and tapestries. This monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland\'s artistic and architectural heritage.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND is an authoritative and fully illustrated survey that encompasses the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. The five volumes explore all aspects of Irish art - from high crosses to installation art, from illuminated manuscripts to Georgian houses and Modernist churches, from tapestries and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and video art. This monumental project provides new insights into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland's artistic and architectural heritage.

ARCHITECTURE 1600-2000
The most complete survey of architecture in Ireland ever published. The essays in this volume cover all aspects of Ireland's built environment, not only buildings but infrastructure, landscape development, public and private construction and much else. The volume challenges and expands the traditional understanding of Irish 'architecture', giving novel and exciting interpretations of the field and, by means of many striking illustrations, encourages us to think anew about the environment that surrounds us.

A comprehensive look at the narrative, practice and literature relating to Architects and Architecture in Ireland between 1600-2000. Chapters are ...Protagonists...Building materials, Construction and Interior decoration...Architectural styles and discourse...Infrastructure...Civic, Institutional and Military architecture...Industrial and Commercial architecture...Ecclesiastical architecture...Rural domestic architecture...Urban Environment and Housing...Architecture of Recreation and Public resort...Heritage and Conservation...Irish Architecture in the first decade of the new Century.

Vol. 1 Medieval, c. 400-c. 1600 / Rachel Moss, ed.

Vol. 2 Painting, 1600-1900 / Nicola Figgis, ed.

Vol. 3 Sculpture, 1600-2000 / Paula Murphy, ed.

Vol. 4 Architecture, 1600-2000 / Rolf Loeber [and others], eds.

Vol. 5 Twentieth Century / Catherine Marshall [and others], eds.

This title provides an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Each volume has its own expert editor or editorial team and covers a specific area or chronological period. More than 250 scholars from around the world, who represent a broad range of disciplines, contribute texts that range from thematic and general to articles on techniques and historical developments, biographical entries, bibliographies, lists of artists, and comprehensive indexes. Historical documentation combines with the best of current scholarship to make this the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking of its kind. The volumes will explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture - from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolours and sculptures to photographs, oil paintings, video art and tapestries. This monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland\'s artistic and architectural heritage.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rolf Loeber holds professorships at the University of Pittsburgh, where he oversees research on the causes of crime as well as mental health problems in young people. He has published extensively on Irish architecture, the history of fiction, and social, economic and plantation history. Hugh Campbell is professor of architecture at University College, Dublin, where he is currently head of the School of Architecture. He has published extensively on subjects from Irish architecture and urbanism to photography and urban space. Livia Hurley is an architect and architectural historian working in private practice in Dublin. Her research interests include urban history and the study of industrial sites and monuments. John Montague is assistant professor in the College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. His research interests include medieval and early modern architecture, and urban mapping. He is co-author, with Colm Lennon, of John Rocque's Dublin: a Guide to the Georgian City (Dublin, 2010). Ellen Rowley is an architectural historian, researching 20th-century architecture in Ireland and beyond. She has written extensively on architectural modernism and edited a collection of Irish architectural writing: Patterns of Thought (2012). She is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin.