Ireland, design and visual culture :  negotiating modernity, 1922-1992 / 
edited by Linda King, Elaine Sisson. 
 - Cork :  Cork University Press,  2010. 
 - 300 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/> Published by the Cork University Press [and] School of Creative Arts, IADT 
<br/><br/>Introduction. Modalities of the visible. Luke Gibbons -- 1.Materiality, modernity and the shaping of identity: an overview. Elaine Sisson and Linda King -- 2.Experimentalism and the Irish stage: Theatre and German expressionism in the 1920s. Elaine Sisson -- 3.Technology and modernity: The Shannon Scheme and visions of national progress. Sorcha O\'Brien -- 4.Nationality and representation: The Coinage Design Committee (1926-1928) and the formation of a design identity in the Irish Free State. Paul Caffrey -- 5.An Guşm, The Free State and the politics of the Irish language. Brian Oş Conchubhair -- 6.Republic of virtue: Our Boys, the campaign against evil literature and the assertion of Catholic moral authority in Free State Ireland. Michael Flanagan -- 7.Vanishing borders. The representation of political partition in the Free State 1922-1949. Ciaşran Swan -- 8.\'Funeral black trucks advertising Guinness\': The St. Patrick\'s Day Industrial Pagent. Mike Cronin -- 9.(De)constructing the tourist gaze: Dutch influences and Aer Lingus tourism posters. 1950-1960. Linda King -- 10.Tradition in the service of modernity: Kilkenny Design Workshops and selling Irish design at American Department Store promotions, 1967-1976 -- 11.From Dublin to Chicago and back again: An exploration of the influence of Americanised modernism on the culture of Dublin\'s architectrue, 1945-1975. Ellen Rowley -- 12.The ephemera of eternity: the Irish Catholic memorial card as material culture. Mary Ann Bolger -- 13.Celtic revivals: Jim Fitzpatrick and the Celtic imaginary in Irish and international popular culture. Maeve Connolly. 
<br/><br/> This is the first comprehensive collection of essays on Irish design and visual culture which draws from interdisciplinary fields to address design history as an emergent field in Irish studies. The volume also explores the contribution of the visual and cultural analyses to an understanding of Irish historiography. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781859184721 (hbk.) :  £35.00 9781859184721 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts, Irish--20th century<br/>Design--History--Ireland--20th century<br/>Modernism (Art)--Ireland<br/>Art and society--History--Ireland--20th century<br/>Arts, Irish--European influences<br/>Arts, Irish--American influences<br/>Art and Design.<br/>Ireland<br/>20th century, c 1900 to c 1999<br/>History of art<br/>European history<br/>Material culture<br/>Cultural studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX546.A1 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.4170904 KIN