Imaging the Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350145689)

The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

Author: Niamh Ann Kelly
ISBN-10: 1350145688
ISBN-13: 9781350145689
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d