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In the lion's den : Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire / Niamh O'Sullivan.

Title
In the lion's den : Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire / Niamh O'Sullivan.
Author
O'Sullivan, Niamh
Publication
Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, c2016.

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Additional Authors
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Description
152 pages : color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 28 cm.
Summary
Daniel Macdonald (1820-1853) is a painter who deserves to be better known. Niamh O'Sullivan's fascinating book reveals compelling new subtexts to his oeuvre and re-establishes him as a painter of national importance; it also sheds original light on the social and visual culture of Ireland in the years leading up to and during the Famine. Themes rarely visited by artists--rural violence, superstition and folklore, the Famine, and many aspects of the national character--were given spirited treatment by Macdonald who insinuated such subject matter in to the salons of metropolitan London, to venues distinctly hostile to Irish poverty, hunger and agitation. This critical biography is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish art and history.--back cover.
Series Statement
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Ciaran Deane
Uniform Title
Studies in the great hunger (Quinnipiac University)
Alternative Title
Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire
Subject
  • McDaniel, James, 1788-1865
  • Rogers, Jane Masters Macdonald, 1824-1909
  • MacDonald, Daniel, 1821-1853
  • 1800-1899
  • Painting, Irish > 19th century
  • Famines in art
  • Hunger in art
  • Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
  • Ireland > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, is home to many of Macdonald's paintings and drawings that feature here, and this book coincides with the first retrospective exhibition of Daniel Macdonald's work, held at Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University, in 2016."--p.9
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The Cork crucible -- Rabid fury -- We are scourged -- Tales of Rural Ireland -- Appendices: Daniel Macdonald exhibition record -- Daniel Macdonald interim catalogue -- James McDaniel works -- Jane Masters Macdonald Rogers biography -- Jane Masters Macdonald Rogers works.
ISBN
  • 9780990468684
  • 0990468682
LCCN
^^2015463178
OCLC
  • 936342093
  • SCSB-12239650
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library