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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100935573127
ISBN-139780935573121
eBay Product ID (ePID)929622
Product Key Features
Book TitleImagining an Irish Past : the Celtic Revival 1840-1940
Number of Pages158 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European, Europe / Ireland
Publication Year1992
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, History
AuthorTeri J. Edelstein
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight17.4 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width7.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Preface byEdelstein, Teri J.
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal941.508
Table Of ContentCONTENTS vii List of Plates ix Preface and Acknowledgments T. J. Edelstein xiii Introduction T. J. Edelstein, Richard A. Born, Sue Taylor CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION 1 Domesticating the Dragon: The Rediscovery, Reproduction, and Re-invention of Early Irish Metalwork - Michael Camille 22 Celtic Revivals and Women's Work - Linda Seidel 44 Knox of Manx and Liberty's of London: In the Ministry of the Beautiful - Anthony Jones 64 Douglas Hyde and the King of the Chimps: Some Notes on the De-Anglicization of Ireland - Frank Kinahan 82 Selling National Culture: Ireland at the World's Columbian Exposition - Neil Harris 106 The Work of Edmond Johnson: Archaeology and Commerce - Cheryl Washer CHECKLIST OF THE EXHIBITION 123 Color Printing 127 Liberty & Co. 131 The Dun Emer Guild 145 Louis Sullivan 149 Francis O'Neill 151 Chicago Metalwork 154 Thomas A. O'Shaughnessy
SynopsisFollowing the discovery of the Early Christian Ardagh Chalice, Cross of Cong, and the Tara Brooch, a renewed sense of patriotism and national identity arose in Ireland and inspired numerous contemporary copies of Irish treasures. These works reached the middle classes when retailers such as Liberty's of London, Tiffany's, and Marshall Field's marketed facsimilies and adaptations worn by such luminaries as Queen Victoria. This catalogue details the exhibition Imagining an Irish Past, which features more than 300 objects representing the last of the great 19th century revivals of the visual arts--the rediscovery of medieval Celtic ornament from a period before British control., The catalogue for an exhibit at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February to June 1992. Lists, illustrates, and describes nearly 300 artworks created 1840-1940 as facsimiles of ancient Irish artifacts, or in their style. The pieces include painting and sculpture, jewe
Memoir byHarris, Neil, Jones, Anthony, Camille, Michael, Kinahan, Frank
