
Ghost-Haunted Land
Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland
Declan Long(Author)
Manchester University Press
Will be published approx. on 12. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-5261-4624-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Willie Doherty. 'Post-Troubles' contemporary art is discussed in the context of both local transformations and global operations - and many of the main points of reference in the book come from broader debates about the place and purpose of contemporary art in today's world. -- .
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 acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Willie Doherty. 'Post-Troubles' contemporary art is discussed in the context of both local transformations and global operations - and many of the main points of reference in the book come from broader debates about the place and purpose of contemporary art in today's world. -- .
Reviews / Votes
'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 -- .
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
19 colour illustrations, 28 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-4624-3 (9781526146243)
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Person
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 -- .
Content
Preface to the paperback edition
Introduction
1 Same difference: post-Troubles contexts and contradictions
2 New terrains: 'Northern Irish art' in the wider world
3 The post-Troubles art of Willie Doherty
4 That which was: histories, documents, archives
5 Phantom publics: imagining ways of 'being together'
Conclusion - or against conclusions
Index -- .
Introduction
1 Same difference: post-Troubles contexts and contradictions
2 New terrains: 'Northern Irish art' in the wider world
3 The post-Troubles art of Willie Doherty
4 That which was: histories, documents, archives
5 Phantom publics: imagining ways of 'being together'
Conclusion - or against conclusions
Index -- .