Ireland was only one of six nations represented at the 1913 Armory Show, a ground-breaking exhibition of modern art. Given that Ireland was neither an independent state nor known as a producer of avant-garde art, this was highly unusual. John Quinn and the Armory Show’s publicity man, Frederick J. G...

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1. Verfasser:	Kennedy, Róisín Askale 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2022
Schlagworte:	Armory Show > 1913 > New York, NY Nationalbewusstsein Kunst Irland
Zusammenfassung:	Ireland was only one of six nations represented at the 1913 Armory Show, a ground-breaking exhibition of modern art. Given that Ireland was neither an independent state nor known as a producer of avant-garde art, this was highly unusual. John Quinn and the Armory Show’s publicity man, Frederick J. Gregg, can been credited with the inclusion of the work of Jack B. Yeats, George Russell and Nathaniel Hone in the exhibition. For Quinn it was vital that the work of Irish artists be included in what he described as ‘the best exhibition of contemporary art that had ever been held anywhere in any country … .’ The exhibition coincided with a key moment in the development of a separate identity for Irish art and with the project of Hugh Lane, an important Irish art collector, to secure a permanent Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin in which his collection of modern French art would be housed. This essay analyses how the Irish work was positioned in the display and marketing of the Armory Show and the role its inclusion served in the wider agenda of the exhibition.
Beschreibung:	Illustrationen, Plan
ISBN:	978-1-032-12127-7