Irish book bindings, ceramics, glass, furniture, metalwork, musical instruments, and textiles are also featured in a series of Made in Ireland galleries highlighting Dublin, Cork, Belfast, and. Also included are numerous shorter essays covering a full spectrum of topics and artworks, including bookbinding, ceramics, furniture, glass, mezzotints, miniatures, musical instruments, pastels, silver, and textiles. Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 16901840 expands on the Knight of Glin’s vision to also include paintings, sculpture, and architecture. Major essays discuss the subjects of the Irish landscape and tourism, Irish country houses, and Dublin’s role as a center of culture and commerce. When The Magazine ANTIQUES started publication in January 1922, it coincided with the end of the War of Independence between Ireland and Great Britain and the beginning of a self-inflicted and even more brutal Civil War among opposing factions of the Irish Republican Army that would last until 1923. William and Christopher Monkhouse (24 results) You searched for: ISBN: 9780865592728. This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition to celebrate the Irish as artists, collectors, and patrons over 150 years of Ireland's sometimes turbulent history.įeaturing the work of a wide range of artists-known and unknown-and a diverse array of media, the catalogue also includes an impressive assembly of essays by a pre-eminent group of international experts working on the art and cultural history of Ireland. Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design 1690-1840 by Laffan Monkhouse and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.

Nearly all of the works within this remarkable volume-many of them never published before-have been drawn from North American collections. This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland’s history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts. A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media

Ireland by Christopher Monkhouse