Publication

2015 - Cork University Press

Language

English

Word Count

17,000 words, Guess

Page Count

68 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100990468631
  • ISBN-139780990468639
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014472829
  • OCLC Control Number897289249
  • Better World Books9780990468639
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Classifications

  • LCCDA950.7.O79 2014
  • LCCDA950.7 .O79 2014
  • LCCDA950.7 .O88 2014

Description

The subject matter of real human suffering did not lend itself easily to art. Ireland's Great Hunger--the worst demographic catastrophe of the nineteenth century--coincided with the invention of new mass-market periodicals. This essay considers the aesthetic, historical, technical and contextual roles of British newspaper illustration in interpreting the story of the Famine. Hiamh O'Sullivan examines how academically trained artists who had little experience of looking at unfiltered or distanced atrocity, became pictorial journalists and found new ways to image a trauma of unprecedented scale and horror.--back cover.

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