ART APPRECIATION
Revolutionary States: Home Rule & Modern Ireland
AUTUMN AN153
Thursday
Tutor: Jessica Tutors: Jessica O'DonnelL, Curator of Education & Research and staff of Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Taking as its starting point themes explored in the exhibition Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland this lecture series will discuss significant artistic, social and political movements in Ireland during the period 1900-1914. 2012 is the centenary of the introduction of the third Home Rule Bill to the British Parliament. Although passed, Home Rule was never implemented due to the outbreak of World War I. The Hugh Lane Gallery is uniquely placed to tell the visual story of this turbulent and complex period in Irish history. The Gallery was central to discussions on national identity as citizens from different religious and political backgrounds gathered in support of the establishment of the Gallery of Modern Art for Dublin. The resurgent Irish cultural scene stimulated debates on the emerging modernist movements in Europe and the place of Irish cultural traditions.
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DUBLIN CITY GALLERY THE HUGH LANE |
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| 8 Thursdays | Sep 27, Oct 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov 1, 8, 15 | 2.00pm - 4.00pm |
| FEE: €155 | Print Open Learning Application Form 2012.13 or call 01 716 7123 for laser/ credit card payment |
Provisional list of key topics :
- Home Rule and Modern Ireland: Art and Politics. Looking at portraits by John Lavery and other artists
- Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863 – 1941): Artist and Social Campaigner
- Conservation at the Hugh Lane: Home Rule and Modern Ireland
- Images of Ireland: Irish Painting 1900-1920
- Cultural Revival in Ireland during the late 19th and early 20th century:Lady Augusta Gregory and the Irish Celtic and Literary Revival / The Founding of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
- Irish Exhibitions at Home and Abroad 1904-1914
- The 1913 Lockout
- A Yearning for Change - Looking at Movements and Activism from the Co-operative Movement to Women’s Suffrage
Who is the course for?
All interested in the artistic, social and political history of Ireland in the period c. 1900-1920.
Reading List:
The following is a selection of recommended texts for those interested in reading further around the course content. We advise that you do not buy books in advance of the course as your tutor will discuss the list and suggest the most relevant reading for particular interests.
Cappock, M., (ed.), et al, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane: Guide to the Collection, 2006.
Dawson, B., (ed.), et al, Hugh Lane Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland, 2008.
Ferriter, D., The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000, 2005.
Sisley, L., (ed), et al, Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland, 2012
McCoole, S., Passion and Politics Sir John Lavery: The Salon Revisited, 2010
Tutor Details:
Dr Margarita Cappock is Head of Collections at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. A graduate of UCD and NCAD she was the project manager of the Francis Bacon studio project at the Gallery overseeing the cataloguing of the over 7,000 items found when the entire contents of Bacon’s studio were relocated to Dublin. She has written many articles on Francis Bacon and is author of the Francis Bacon Studio (Merrell, 2005). In 2011 she organised the exhibition Women of Substance, which was drawn from artworks in the Gallery’s collection. Her essay on the artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison is published in the catalogue Revolution States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland.
Patrick Casey (BA(Int.), MLitt) is a graduate of UCD. He was the Curator for the Permanent Collection at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and has lectured in History of Art Department in UCD. More recently he has been the Operations Manager at the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda. His research on Italian Futurism was centred on the interpretation of words and images of the new technological age at the turn of the 20th century. Patrick has lectured extensively as part of the Hugh Lane’s education programme.
Dr Roisin Kennedy is an art historian and curator specialising in Irish and international modernist art and its critical reception. She is former Yeats Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland and lecturer in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin.
Jessica Fahy has been teaching for over four years at the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at UCD as well as tutoring for the Adult Education Centre. She has taught a wide range of courses, covering various areas of the History of European Art. She is currently writing her PhD thesis at UCD and completed her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 2007
Joanna Shepard (BA Art History; Dip Conservation of Easel Paintings) is a graduate of Warwick University and The Courtauld Institute, London. As a freelance conservator, Joanna worked for the Dutch Royal household and assisted with the transfer of the Bacon Studio from London to Dublin in 1998. Joanna has been Head of Conservation at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane since 1999, directing care and research of the gallery’s collection. She has lectured and taught on diverse subjects, notably care of collections and the challenges posed by conservation of contemporary art.
Logan Sisley is Exhibitions Curator at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. He holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Otago and an M.A.(Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has spoken at international conferences on themes including archives, family photography and tourist landscapes. He also works with Common Ground in the development of Studio 468 in Rialto, Dublin. Logan is the Curator of the Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland exhibition and is also a contributor to the exhibition catalogue.
Ciarán Woods completed the Purser Griffith Diploma course in the History of European Painting at UCD, winning the Purser-Griffith Prize. He then undertook a four year modular arts degree in UCD. This was followed by an MA where his treatise was on “Hugh Lane and the 1902 exhibition of Old Masters in Dublin”. He was a tutor in UCD’s History of Art department for three years and a committee member of the Irish Association of Art Historians for 6. Ciaran has guided and lectured extensively as part of the Hugh Lane’s education programme.
