Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts: Contemporary Irish Visual Art 2000 - 2011 - Softcover

Noel Kelly; Seán Kissane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907683119 ISBN 13: 9781907683114

Publisher: Visual Artists Ireland, 2011

Synopsis

Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts, edited by Noel Kelly and Seán Kissane, provides a rigorous survey and appraisal of Irish contemporary visual arts practice through the critical optic of local, national and international perspectives. It profiles 100 leading contemporary Irish visual artists active from 2000 2011. A broad overview and analysis of the issues confronted by Irish artists is addressed in five thematic essays, by leading Irish cultural commentators, Valerie Connor; Colin Graham, Fiona Kearney, Mebh Ruane, and Brian Hand.

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Review:

Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts is a critically curated volume of 100 leading Irish artists accompanied by texts which contextualise the societal, economic, and academic background in which they have created their careers. Each individual artist is accompanied by a synopsis of their career, and the curators reasoning in the selection of specific works that are shown in the book. Their story is unique as they swing between the economic good times, and now continue to create within a world of new social and economic realities. Far from being a dry volume, Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts shows a vibrancy and is permeated with an on-going air of hope for the future of contemporary visual arts. --Visual Artists Ireland

...a handful of essays at the back offer the critical engagement that we expect from VAI, and the book's strong visual impact, with high quality reproductions of each of the artworks featured, makes its perusal an enjoyable and aesthetically profound experience... --Totally Dublin, November 2011

Flair, strength and ambition There were many great shows throughout 2011 demonstrating the fantastic quality of Irish art, writes AIDAN DUNNE ....... Two arts publications stand out. Creative Ireland: Contemporary Visual Art in Ireland 200-2011 , edited by Noel Kelly and Seán Kissane (Visual Artists Ireland 25), a lively anthology highlighting 100 key artists of the decade, and... --Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Flair, strength and ambition ( a round up of 2011)

About this edition

• Publisher: Visual Artists Ireland
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907683119
• ISBN 13: 9781907683114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Noel Kelly, Seán Kissane