From Ireland Coming:
Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context
Edited by Colum Hourihane

Cloth | 2001 | $110.00 / £75.00
392 pp. | 8 1/2 x 11 | 182 halftones, 31 line illus.

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Lying at Europe's remote western edge, Ireland long has been seen as having an artistic heritage that owes little to influences beyond its borders. This publication, the first to focus on Irish art from the eighth century AD to the end of the sixteenth century, challenges the idea that the best-known Irish monuments of that period-the high crosses, the Book of Kells, the Tara Brooch, the round towers-reflect isolated, insular traditions. Seventeen essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do have a place in the main currents of European art.

While this book reveals unexpected links between Ireland, Late-Antique Italy, the Byzantine Empire, and the Anglo-Saxons, its center is always the artistic culture of Ireland itself. It includes new research on the Sheela-na-gigs, often thought to be merely erotic sculptures; on the larger cultural meanings of the Tuam Market Cross and its nineteenth-century re-erection; and on late-medieval Irish stone crosses and metalwork. The emphasis on later monuments makes this one of the first volumes to deal with Irish art after the Norman invasion.

The contributors are Cormac Bourke, Mildred Budny, Tessa Garton, Peter Harbison, Jane Hawkes, Colum Hourihane, Catherine E. Karkov, Heather King, Susanne McNab, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Emmanuelle Pirotte, Roger Stalley, Kees Veelenturf, Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, Niamh Whitfield, Maggie McEnchroe Williams, and Susan Youngs.

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Other Princeton books by Colum Hourihane:

• Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art.
• Insights and Interpretations: Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art.
• King David in the Index of Christian Art.
• Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art.
• Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art.

Series:

• Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
• Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers
  Colum Hourihane, Series Editor

Subject Areas:

• Art and Architecture
• European History
• Religion

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