The reading figure in Irish art in the long nineteenth century
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Reading in art
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Painting, Irish--19th century
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126537
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130007
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135198
abstract: The reading figure has been a recurrent theme in Western art but especially from the nineteenth century. This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which people are shown reading or holding a book. It explores the different assumptions and values that were ascribed to reading and contemporary constructions of the reader. The selected pictures are by artists born, trained, or practising in Ireland. 'Irish art' is, therefore, used broadly to include work framed in some way by experience of Ireland and its history, culture, and politics. This was a time of large social and cultural shifts for Ireland, including the Great Famine and its aftermath, the growth of Irish nationalism, and the slow erosion of Anglo-Irish landlord power. It was a period of growing mass literacy, and also a time when books and other reading, including Irish novels, were often published in London. Many of the artists and sitters discussed were Anglo-Irish Protestants, a number of whom had Irish nationalist sympathies.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310146750
language: eng
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301317783

PropertyValue
property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 317783