Lines of Vision - Irish Writers on Art (Hardcover)

In 1864 a gallery housing just 112 paintings, many on loan from the National Gallery, London, opened to the public in Dublin. The space was called the National Gallery of Ireland. Today the museum houses the Irish national collection of Irish and European art, notable not only for its extensive collection of Irish art but also for its Italian baroque and Dutch masters paintings. For this anthology, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, fifty-six Irish writers have contributed a short story, essay, or poem inspired by a work in the collection. The interactions with the paintings are by turns profound, playful, and insightful. The authors include the cream of contemporary Irish literature, such as Colm Toibin, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, and the late Seamus Heaney. The paintings they have selected are as diverse as the reasons that prompted the choice and range from works by old masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Velazquez to pictures by more modern artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, and Gabrielle Munter, as well as those by Irish artists such as Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, Gerard Dillon, and Paul Henry. The book is organized alphabetically by writer and each text is illustrated with the chosen work in color. Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, has contributed the foreword."

General

Imprint:	Thames and Hudson
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	October 2014
Editors:	Janet McLean
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-500-51756-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Promotions
LSN:	0-500-51756-8
Barcode:	9780500517567

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