Art and Architecture of Ireland: Volume 3: Sculpture 1600–2000

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ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND is an authoritative and fully illustrated survey that encompasses the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. The five volumes explore all aspects of Irish art – from high crosses to installation art, from illuminated manuscripts to Georgian houses and Modernist churches, from tapestries and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and video art. This monumental project provides new insights into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland’s artistic and architectural heritage. SCULPTURE 1600-2000 Irish sculptors have made a significant contribution to the development of their art form both within and outside Ireland. This volume affords the unique opportunity to explore four centuries of their work. Biographies of individual artists and analytical assessments are augmented by a series of thematic essays establishing a context for the practice of sculpture throughout the country north and south. FRONT COVER FRONTISPIECE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND COPYRIGHT FOREWARD GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS ABBREVIATIONS CHRONOLOGY EDITOR’S PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION: IRISH SCULPTURE SINCE 1600 The Narrative The Practice The Literature 2. SCULPTORS AT WORK 3. BIOGRAPHIES A C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W 4. SCULPTORS AT WORK 5. THEMATIC ESSAYS Architectural Sculpture Architecture (Irish Georgian) and Sculpture Arts and Crafts Sculpture Celtic Cross Celtic Revival Sculpture Ceramic Sculpture Church Monuments Churchyard and Cemetery Sculpture Classicisms Coins and Coinage Collecting Sculpture: Private Collecting Sculpture: Public Community Arts Competition Destruction and Loss Ecclesiastical Sculpture Education of Sculptors Éire/Hibernia Exhibitions Famine Memorial Sculpture Foreign Sculptors and their Work in Ireland Garden Sculpture Great Exhibitions: Sculpture Installation Art Institute of the Sculptors of Ireland Irish-American Sculptors Leitrim Sculpture Centre Lettering and Inscriptions National Sculpture Factory Nationalist Memorial Sculpture Nude Painter/Sculptors Performance Art Portrait Sculpture Public Sculpture Saint Patrick Sculptors’ Society of Ireland Sculpture as Situation Sculpture in Context Sculpture in the Parklands Statuaries and Plaster Shops in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Stucco: Baroque and Rococo Stuccowork in Ireland, 1685–1775 Temporary Art Time-based Art War Memorials Wayside Monuments Wood Carving 6. IRISH SCULPTURE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY APPENDIXES Appendix 1 Appendix 2 GLOSSARY SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS REAR COVER