Irish Art & Artists

This book features well over 100 watercolours of Dublin and its hinterland.

After several years, now out is a new and updated edition of the classic text on Harry Clarke, by the world's leading expert on the subject. 

With Barry Flanagan is a vivid account of a friendship that evolved into a working relationship. McNeff was to gain a privileged insight into the sculptor’s singular personality and eccentric working methods

Nancy Wynne-Jones was born in north Wales in 1922. In the 1950's and 60's, she was a significant figure in St Ives in Cornwall, and in 1972 she moved to Ireland.

'Here in these twelve paintings, in painstaking art, the stones, trees and poured concrete of the Seventies speak out to us.

A boxed collection of works by twelve artists invited to respond to The Golden Bough by James George Frazer as a metaphor for the museum. Multifarious works resulted, bound by a common ambition to shift our understanding of what artwork can be.

This book comprehensively documents the first four Crawford Open exhibitions, featuring new work by 121 contemporary Irish artists. An artist’s statement and short biog accompanies each artist's work. The issues encompassed in the first four years of the Open – gender, sexuality, consumerism, technology and the environment – are issues of vital importance for people in every walk of life today.

This book provides a rigorous survey and appraisal of Irish contemporary visual arts practice from the local, national and international point of view.

Back cover slightly shop soiled.

The life and times of Irish painter and naturalist Alexander Williams RHA 1846 - 1930

2010 1st Edition Hardback.