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Ghost-haunted land

Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland

By Declan Long

Ghost-haunted land
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  • ISBN: 9781784991449
  • Publish Date: Aug 2017
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  • Publish Date: May 2020
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    • Format: Paperback
    • ISBN: 978-1-5261-4624-3
    • Pages: 240
    • Price: £31.00
    • Published Date: May 2020

    Description

    Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land - the first book-length examination of post-Troubles contemporary art - Declan Long highlights artists who have reflected on the ongoing anxieties of aftermath.

    This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond - including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Willie Doherty. 'Post-Troubles' contemporary art is discussed in the context of both local transformations and global operations - and many of the main points of reference in the book come from broader debates about the place and purpose of contemporary art in today's world.

    Reviews

    'Ghost-Haunted Land is afoundational work of art criticism that will stand alongside Colin Graham'sstudy of photography and the North as a first point of reference for anyoneinterested in the Troubles and their cultural legacies.'
    Nicholas Allen, IrishTimes, December 2017

    Contents

    Preface to the paperback edition
    Introduction
    1 Same difference: post-Troubles contexts and contradictions
    2 New terrains: 'Northern Irish art' in the wider world
    3 The post-Troubles art of Willie Doherty
    4 That which was: histories, documents, archives
    5 Phantom publics: imagining ways of 'being together'
    Conclusion - or against conclusions
    Index

    Author

    Declan Long is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, and Programme Director of the MA Art in the Contemporary World, at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin

    Ghost-haunted land

    By Declan Long

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