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Imaging the Great Irish Famine : representing dispossession in visual culture

Kelly, Niamh Ann, author

Overview

The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early twenty-first century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
• Subject: Famines Ireland 19th century. / Famines Ireland 19th century In art. / Arts and society Ireland History. / Memorialization Ireland. / Famines in art. / Famines in mass media. / Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852. / Ireland Emigration and immigration History. / Ireland Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9781784537104, 1784537101

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DA950.7.K454 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE