When time began to rant and rage : figurative painting from twentieth-century Ireland /
James Christen Steward, editor ; with essays by Bruce Arnold [and others].
- 288 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 30 cm
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and three other institutions between Oct. 16, 1998 and Dec. 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285) and index.
Lenders to the Exhibition -- Foreword -- Map of Ireland -- Chronology -- The Irishness of Irish Painting -- Public, Private, and a National Spirit -- Some Men and a Picture -- Framing Ireland's History: Art, Politics, and Representation 1914-1929 -- Jack Yeats and the Making of Irish Art in the Twentieth Century -- Irish Women Painters and the Introduction of Modernism -- Irish Painting, Tradition, and Post-War Internationalism -- Madonna and Maiden, Mistress and Mother: Woman as Symbol of Ireland and Spirit of the Nation -- Politics -- Strategic Representations: Notes on Irish Art Since the 1980s -- Catalogue -- Artists' Biographies -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.