IRSH 5076 TROUBLED IMAGES: ART & CONFLICT
This seminar will survey the history of political art in Ireland from the twentieth century to the present. The student will be introduced to the visual arts of modern day Ireland through slide lectures and readings. Issues of national identity and cultural revivalism will be addressed as we look at Irish political art beginning with the Celtic Revival of the late 1840s and continuing to the Northern Irish mural movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Each student will be required to complete a research paper of about 5-20 pages and must present that research in fifteen-minute oral presentation. A prerequisite of one art history course or one Irish studies course is required for the seminar.