- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (3 Dec 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300054637
- ISBN-13: 978-0300054637
- Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 25.4 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,332,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland" examines one of Ireland's most highly respected 20th-century exponents of Irish art. The book is being published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, which runs from 9th December 1991 to 28th February 1992. Virtually unknown outside her own country, Mainie Jellett created a modern movement based on Cubist Abstraction which revolutionised art in Ireland. She gathered round her a school of like-minded artists, and turned them into a powerful influence on painting, design and thought; she established a regular annual art exhibition for the showing of modern paintings and sculpture, and she developed a vital and positive attitude in the country towards art during a period of isolation, difficulty and political torpor. Jellett came from the school of Cubist Abstraction which was led in France by Albert Gleizes and which is still only partly understood and appreciated. In contrast with the slow development of abstract painting in Britain, she regularly exhibited and sold abstract works in Dublin for ten years before the same kind of work was shown in London. Bruce Arnold's examination of the work of Mainie Jellett raises questions about 20th-century painting, about the roots of abstraction, and about misconceptions over the history and later development of Cubism. He offers insights into Albert Gleizes and his followers which will undoubtedly provoke further debate and research.
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A wonderful book about a wonderful Irish woman's life., 12 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful book if you are interest in Irish art or history, or the role for a strong, independent, single woman in early 20th century Ireland. Mainie Jellett is a now obscure Irish artist who was an advocate of the abstract cubist movement, a movement which quickly fell out of favour with the rise of Picasso. But she left her mark on Irish art.
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A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AN UNKNOWN MASTER, 27 Jan 2012
By William J. Havlicek, PhD - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland (Hardcover)
This modern Irish master is someone every serious art person should know. Her path through art was not an easy one and yet against many odds she succeeded in creating a memorable body of work. What makes this book particularly valuable is the visual account of Mainie's evolution from a conventional art student to a progressive and innovative master, taking an important place in Ireland and beyond within the Cubist movement. Within that contemporary context she managed to retain her earliest interest in spiritual themes, leaving in that way an evocative legacy. Mainie Jellett's story offers any serious reader an opportunity to fill in some long-standing gaps in the history of art and of Ireland's unique place in that phenomenon. Mainie Jellett was a compelling, inventive woman and one will be glad to meet her through this beautifully illustrated and engaging text. William J. Havlicek PhD
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