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Ghost-haunted land: Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland
Declan Long
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Description for Ghost-haunted land: Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 colour illustrations, 28 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; AC; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784991449
SKU
V9781784991449
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Ref
99-15
About Declan Long
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 -- .
Reviews for Ghost-haunted land: Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland
'Ghost-Haunted Land is afoundational work of art criticism that will stand alongside Colin Graham'sstudy of photography and the North as a first point of reference for anyoneinterested in the Troubles and their cultural legacies.' Nicholas Allen, IrishTimes, December 2017
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