Read Ireland Book Review
Issue 135
Arts & Music
The Irish Music Handbook 2ed from Music Network Ireland (Paperback; 16.95 IEP / 20.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is a 'one-stop' guide to classical, traditional and jazz music in Ireland, north and south. This vital resource for anybody with a professional or general interest in music in Ireland contains over 2400 entries. Categories include funding organisations, performance organisations, music collectives, summer and winter schools, promoters, festivals, venues, music therapists, music copyists and typesetters, composers and arrangers, recording & practice facilities, programme note writers and community musicians.
Looking Back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester (Hardback; 42.50 IEP / 50.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Controversial in both life and art, Francis Bacon was one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. His monumental, unsettling images have an extraordinary power to disturb, shock and haunt the spectator. In this book, the eminent writer and curator David Sylvester provides the definitive account of the career of an artist whose friend and collaborator he was for more than forty years. Drawing on his unparalleled personal knowledge of Bacon's inspirations and intentions, he first offers a critical overview of the work's development from 1933 to the early 1990s, and the addresses its crucial aspects. He also reproduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself, modern painters and the art of the past. Finally, Sylvester gives a brief account of Bacon's life, correcting errors that elsewhere have been presented as facts. Accompanying the incisive and revealing text are reproductions of almost every Bacon work discussed, as well as some of the images by other artists and photographers that provided their inspiration. This book is the most complete and authoritative book on Francis Bacon yet, a unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of our age. With 230 illustrations, 84 in colour, including 12 triptych fold-outs.
Francis Bacon in Dublin by David Sylvester (Paperback; 25.00 IEP / 32.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Published in association with the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, this volume accompanies the first exhibition of Francis Bacon's paintings to be held in his native city for four decades. Curated by David Sylvester, the internationally renowned critic and curator, and Bacon's close friend for more than forty years, the exhibition surveys the whole of the artist's career from the early 1930s through to the late 1980s. The paintings in the show, all of which are reproduced in this book in full colour, include some of his most important and finest works, and several which have never been exhibited in a public gallery. Sylvester's notes to the plates present a concise account of Bacon's artistic development, highlighting the central themes, motifs and techniques that evolved or remained constant throughout his career. In addition, accompanying texts by Grey Gowrie, Louis le Brocquy, Anthony Cronin and Paul Durcan, all of whom new Bacon personally, provide fascinating insights into the artist's life, work and personality. With 66 colour illustrations.
Images of Simon: Thirty Years of the Simon Community in Ireland (Paperback; 8.99 IEP / 11.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is an based on an exhibition of photographs by three photographers: Peter Orford, Fidelma Bonass and Peter Reynolds, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Simon Community's work with the homeless people of Ireland. Between them, the three photographers have chronicled life in Simon over the past three decades. In both black-and-white and colour, the photographs show scenes from various projects and activities in the Simon communities of Cork, Dublin, Dundalk and Galway. There is a strong emphasis on people and on the theme of relationship.
Tracings: Volume 1 edited by Hugh Campbell and Bill Hastings (Paperback; 20.00 IEP / 25.00 USD) [Add To Basket] Architecture in Ireland has begun to assume a place in the public mind. There is, however, still very little critical discussion of the ideas and purposes that animate it, or of its place in the wider national and international context of environmental provision. This journal aims to create a forum for exposition and debate. The theme of this first volume is the sense of belonging to a place and is a reflection on social and cultural change which keeps the contemporary Irish experience in sight.
Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation by Lance Pettitt (Paperback; 21.00 IEP / 30.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book examines a century of screen representation of Ireland from a cultural studies perspective. Skillfully exploring historical and contemporary examples - from Irish Destiny to Father Ted - this book provides an innovative, theoretically informed analysis of both film and television that is comprehensively researched and clearly written. The book succinctly synthesises current debates about Irish history and cultural criticism, as well as providing concise histories of cinema and television in Ireland. It offer a wide-ranging discussion of Hollywood, British, indigenous Irish and independent diaspora films and a selection of different television genres. It argues that Ireland's case exemplifies and complicates conventional models of national cinema, television history and postcolonial theories of culture.
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