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Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising
Lisa Godson (Ed.)
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Description for Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising
Hardcover. This volume of essays examines the material and visual culture of the 1916 Rising - from museum displays and family keepsakes to imagery in art and film - to consider how these can illuminate changing perceptions of this iconic event in Irish history. Editor(s): Godson, Lisa; Bruck, Joanna. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 782.
The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term – an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising – from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards – have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual ... Read more
The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term – an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising – from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards – have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381229
SKU
V9781781381229
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Ref
99-50
About Lisa Godson (Ed.)
Lisa Godson is Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Joanna Brück is Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.
Reviews for Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising
Reviews 'This important book explores the material and visual culture around the Rising. Lisa Godson and Joanna Brück have assembled essays from 23 contributors to comment on a plethora of objects, clothes, photographs, paintings, documents and buildings that provide us with a new set of angles on the events that convulsed Ireland 100 years ago.' Catriona Crowe, The ... Read more