The Tombs of a departed race : illustrations of Ireland's great hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in the great hunger (Quinnipiac University)Publication details: Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, c2014.Description: 67 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780990468639
- 0990468631
- Illustrations of Ireland's great hunger
- 1800 - 1899
- Famines -- Ireland
- Famines in art
- Hunger in art
- English newspapers -- History -- 19th century
- Graphic arts -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Starvation -- history -- Ireland
- Newspapers -- history -- Ireland
- Medical Illustration -- Ireland
- History, 19th Century -- Ireland
- Human Migration -- history -- Ireland
- Social Conditions -- history -- Ireland
- Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852
- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
- 941.5081 OSU
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The subject matter of real human suffering does not lend itself easily to art. Ireland's Great Hunger -- the worst demographic catastrophe of the nineteenth century - coincided with the invention of new mass-market periodicals. Niamh O'Sullivan considers the aesthetic, historical, technical and contextual roles of British newspaper illustration in interpreting the story of the Famine. The booklet examines how academically trained artists who had little experience of looking at unfiltered or distanced atrocity became pictorial journalists and found new ways to image a trauma of unprecedented scale and horror.
The subject matter of real human suffering did not lend itself easily to art. Ireland's Great Hunger--the worst demographic catastrophe of the nineteenth century--coincided with the invention of new mass-market periodicals. This essay considers the aesthetic, historical, technical and contextual roles of British newspaper illustration in interpreting the story of the Famine. Niamh O'Sullivan examines how academically trained artists who had little experience of looking at unfiltered or distanced atrocity, became pictorial journalists and found new ways to image a trauma of unprecedented scale and horror.--back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).
Horrible suffering, utter penury -- Crawling skeletons -- Half-clad spectres -- The mirror of truth -- A mass of human putrifaction -- The triumph of pestilence and the feast of death -- The black hole of Calcutta -- Buried in the deep.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Horrible Suffering, Utter Penury
- Crawling Skeletons
- Half-Clad Spectres
- The Mirror of Truth
- A Mass of Human Putrefaction
- The Triumph of Pestilence and the Feast of Death
- The Black Hole of Calcutta
- Buried in the Deep
- Endnotes
- Works Cited
- Images
- About the Author