Imaging the Great Irish Famine : representing dispossession in visual culture /

Imaging the Great Irish Famine : representing dispossession in visual culture /

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Author / Creator:	Kelly, Niamh Ann, author.
Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2018. ©2018
Description:	xxi, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	International Library of Visual Culture ; 25 International library of visual culture ; 25.
Subject:	Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) Famines -- Ireland -- 19th century. Famines -- Ireland -- 19th century -- In art. Arts and society -- Ireland -- History. Memorialization -- Ireland. Famines in art. Famines in mass media. Arts and society Emigration and immigration Famines Famines in art Famines in mass media Memorialization Social conditions Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History. Ireland -- Social conditions. Ireland Art History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11682734

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ISBN:	9781784537104 1784537101
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-281) and index.
Summary:	The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early twenty-first century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

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Summary:	The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.
Physical Description:	xxi, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-281) and index.
ISBN:	9781784537104 1784537101