- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: The Collins Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903464382
- ISBN-13: 978-1903464380
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.1 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,414,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Art history is based on many sources: images, documents, voices. How do the voices of non-artists who worked for the arts sound? What is their memory of the successes and inevitable frustrations? This collection of interviews with individuals, significant in the world of Irish art, is an oral history of the visual arts in Ireland since 1960. The interviewees range from C.J. Haughey, who initiated tax concessions for artists resident in Ireland, to Michael D. Higgins, first minister for arts and culture in Ireland. Also featured are Dorothy Walker, recently deceased writer and critic, Colm O Briain, Director of NCAD and former Arts Council Director and advisor to M.D. Higgins, Declan McGonagle, former Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Patrick Murphy, art collector and chairperson of the Arts Council, Anne Crookshank, the first professor of Art History at Trinity College Dublin, and Brian Fallon, art critic with The Irish Times for many years. Artists are also interviewed, e.g. Vivienne Roche and Paul O Reilly, but as commentators on the art scene rather than artists. Taken as a whole these penetrating interviews combine elements of the personal and the period to offer a fascinating combination of serious insight and anecdote of interest to both specialist and general readers. .
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Vera Ryan, born in 1953, grew up in Rathdowney, Co Laois. She was educated in the Dominican Convent, Eccles St., University College Dublin and Trinity College. Although a qualified solicitor since 1978, she has taught art history at the Crawford College, Cork since 1981. She has been a member of various boards, including the board of the National College of Art and Design (1983 – 87) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1997 – 2000). Widely published in books and catalogues, she contributed to Tony O'Malley (Scholar Press 1996). She has one son.
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Offers an invaluable modern art history
9 Sep 2004
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The price tag is hefty for a standard-sized paperback, that's because it is an overseas import. But any collection strong in Irish arts will want to accept Vera Ryan's Movers & Shakers: Irish Art Since 1960 into the fold anyway as it offers an invaluable modern art history which ranges from interviews and black and white photos to source documents, using as its foundation interviews with 12 modern Irish artists who have been influential in their genres. Highly recommended!
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