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The reading figure has been a recurrent theme in Western art but especially from the nineteenth century. This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which people are shown reading or holding a book. It explores the different assumptions and values that were ascribed to reading and contemporary constructions of the reader. The selected pictures are by artists born, trained, or practising in Ireland. 'Irish art' is, therefore, used broadly to include work framed in some way by experience of Ireland and its history, culture, and politics. This was a time of large social and cultural shifts for Ireland, including the Great Famine and its aftermath, the growth of Irish nationalism, and the slow erosion of Anglo-Irish landlord power. It was a period of growing mass literacy, and also a time when books and other reading, including Irish novels, were often published in London. Many of the artists and sitters discussed were Anglo-Irish Protestants, a number of whom had Irish nationalist sympathies.

Portraits, Irish --- Reading in art. --- Books and reading in art. --- Women --- History --- Portraits --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Irish portraits --- Portraits, Irish. --- 1800-1899 --- Ireland

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General ecology and biosociology --- Hunting. Fishery. Aquaculture --- Shipping --- Art --- History of civilization --- shipwrecks --- rafts --- oceans [marine bodies of water] --- zeewezens --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 2000-2099

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This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of countries-including Ireland, Scotland, Britain, Canada, Finland, Russia and Germany-during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors show visual imagery to be a particularly productive focus for analysing the intersections of nation and gender, since the nation and nationalism, as abstract concepts, have to be "embodied" in ways that make them imaginable, especially through the means of art. They explore how allegorical female figures personify the nation across a wide range of visual media, from sculpture to political cartoons and how national architectures may also be gendered. They show how through such representations, art reveals the ethno-cultural bases of nationalisms. Through the study of such images, the essays in this volume cast new light on the significance of gender in the construction of nationalist ideology and the constitution of the nation-state. In tackling the conjunctions of nation, gender and visual representation, the case studies presented in this publication can be seen to provide exciting new perspectives on the study of nations, of gender and the history of art. The range of countries chosen and the variety of images scrutinised create a broad arena for further debate.

Femme, thème --- Intersectionnalité --- Féminisme --- Nationalisme --- Irlande --- Angleterre --- Ecosse --- Canada --- Finlande --- Russie --- Allemagne