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Whipping The Herring: Survival and Celebration in 19th Century Irish Art

Whipping The Herring: Survival and Celebration in 19th Century Irish Art

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Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Crawford Art Gallery Whipping the Herring features sections:

  • Realism versus romanticism in framing national identity

  • The representation of everyday life in Irish painting of the 19th century: The European Context

  • Rural life through artists' eyes : an interdisciplinary approach

  • The dark side of the Irish landscape : depictions of the rural poor

  • Colour plates : whipping the herring : survival and celebration in nineteenth-century Irish art

  • Engravings : representations of ireland in the 'Illustrated London News'

 

Author: Peter Murray

Contributors: Julian Campbell, Claudia Kinmonth, Tom Dunne

Format: Hardback

Size: 24.5 x 22.5 cm, 264 pages

Publisher: Gandon Editions, Crawford Art Gallery

ISBN: 9780948034313

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