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This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection
explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual
representation in a number of countries-including Ireland,
Scotland, Britain, Canada, Finland, Russia and Germany-during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors show visual
imagery to be a particularly productive focus for analysing the
intersections of nation and gender, since the nation and
nationalism, as abstract concepts, have to be "embodied" in ways
that make them imaginable, especially through the means of art.
They explore how allegorical female figures personify the nation
across a wide range of visual media, from sculpture to political
cartoons and how national architectures may also be gendered. They
show how through such representations, art reveals the
ethno-cultural bases of nationalisms. Through the study of such
images, the essays in this volume cast new light on the
significance of gender in the construction of nationalist ideology
and the constitution of the nation-state. In tackling the
conjunctions of nation, gender and visual representation, the case
studies presented in this publication can be seen to provide
exciting new perspectives on the study of nations, of gender and
the history of art. The range of countries chosen and the variety
of images scrutinised create a broad arena for further debate.
This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection
explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual
representation in a number of countries-including Ireland,
Scotland, Britain, Canada, Finland, Russia and Germany-during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors show visual
imagery to be a particularly productive focus for analysing the
intersections of nation and gender, since the nation and
nationalism, as abstract concepts, have to be "embodied" in ways
that make them imaginable, especially through the means of art.
They explore how allegorical female figures personify the nation
across a wide range of visual media, from sculpture to political
cartoons and how national architectures may also be gendered. They
show how through such representations, art reveals the
ethno-cultural bases of nationalisms. Through the study of such
images, the essays in this volume cast new light on the
significance of gender in the construction of nationalist ideology
and the constitution of the nation-state. In tackling the
conjunctions of nation, gender and visual representation, the case
studies presented in this publication can be seen to provide
exciting new perspectives on the study of nations, of gender and
the history of art. The range of countries chosen and the variety
of images scrutinised create a broad arena for further debate.
Until recently little attention was paid to the role of art in
constructing the "story" of the Irish nation. This wide-ranging
study of Irish pictures and sculpture opens up the subject by
providing a fresh interdisciplinary approach. Each work is analyzed
beyond its strictly art historical relevance. A deeper
investigation into the context in which a work was produced reveals
much about the aspirations and ideological ambitions of artists,
those commissioning works, and the viewing public. The study of
such diverse topics as the representation of the Irish peasant, the
behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for
Ireland, the erecting of political monuments, Church art, West of
Ireland landscape painting, and the difference in nationalistic
fervor among artists as diverse as Albert G. Power and Jack B.
Yeats unveil fascinating testimony about Ireland's collective
national "needs" and its constructs of identity.
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