[Murray, Peter / Brooke, Peter / Kissane, Sean / Kennedy, Roisin / Coulter, Riann / Hall, Dickon / Crawford Art Gallery].

Analysing Cubism.

First and only edition of this rare Exhibition Catalogue. Cork, Ireland, IMMA / Crawford Art Gallery, 2013. 30 cm. 149 pages. With illustrations, mainly in colour. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

Includes the following essays:

Peter Murray – Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: An Extraordinary Time in History / Sean Kissane – Analysing Cubism /
Dickon Hall – Cubism in Ireland / Peter Brooke – Cubism in the Paris of the 1920s / Roisin Kennedy – Wrongheaded or In Control – Cubism, A Feminist Aesthetic / Riann Coulter – Mainie Jellett – Translating Cubism


Analysing Cubism explores the early decades of Cubism and features the work of such celebrated Cubist artists as Albert Gleizes, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett. The exhibition focuses especially on the Continental milieu in which Hone, Jellett and other Irish artists worked in the 1920s and ‘30s, learning from and contributing to the development of European Modernism. Analysing Cubism takes its title from the early years of the movement, sometimes referred to as ‘Analytical Cubism’. However, the exhibition extends its scope to the end of the Second World War, a watershed in modern art when the focus shifted from Paris to New York. It looks at the work of a number of pioneering Irish artists who travelled to France and further afield to study modern art. The exhibition seeks to place these artists in context, examining the influence of their teachers, as well as exploring the work of some of the leading international exponents of Cubism. The exhibition focuses on the Irish artists May Guinness, Jack Hanlon, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett, Norah McGuinness and Mary Swanzy, and on their English counterparts Paul Egestorff and Elizabeth Rivers. It also includes work by European painters such as Georges Braque, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Henri Hayden, André Lhote and Pablo Picasso. The largest concentration of work in the exhibition is by Gleizes, Hone, Lhote and Jellett – in recognition of the extensive influence that these artists had on modern Irish abstract painting. This fully-illustrated catalogue, published by IMMA, with texts by Peter Brooke, painter and author of Albert Gleizes, For and Against the Twentieth Century, published by Yale University Press; Dr Riann Coulter, art historian and Curator of the F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio; Dickon Hall, author of books on Nevill Johnson and Colin Middleton; Dr Roisin Kennedy, lecture Art History Department, University College Dublin; and curator of the exhibition Seán Kissane. (Publisher’s Info)

• Keywords: Art · Art – Rare · Catalogue Four – International Art
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31974AB

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