Ghost-Haunted Land - Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland

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.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Same difference: post-Troubles context 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

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Declan Long, Long Declan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2017
• EAN: 9781784991449
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-144-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Photography & photographs, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art / art & design styles, Northern Ireland, History of Art, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional, Photography and photographs