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Centre Culturel Irlandaiscontact
Titre : | Crisis and the Visual Arts in Ireland (2015) |
Auteurs : | Pat COOKE, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 40 n 2 2015) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 91-108 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | The global economic crash of 2008 had a particularly severe impact in Ireland, including on the funding and the practice of the arts. This paper examines contemporary responses to crisis in Ireland as refracted through arts practice. It focuses on the work of two contemporary visual artists, Anthony Haughey and Deirdre O'Mahony, both of whom see ethics and politics as intrinsic to their work. It asks whether some of the underpinning rationales for artist engagement, particularly in the field of relational aesthetics, can empower artists to meet expectations that their work can, or should, be capable of decisive interventions at historical moments of crisis. A related objective is to ground a theoretical understanding of the nature of crisis in the evolution of an artist's work, to gain some sense of its temporal manifestation in the life-long, everyday practice of making art |
Pays de publication : | France |
Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
Mention de responsabilité : | Pat Cooke |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |