Luke Gibbons 22nd February 2012


Luke Gibbons
The Memory of Forms: Image, History and Irish Art


6.30pm Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Lecture Room G6, School of Art Design and Printing
Dublin Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1


Luke Gibbons is Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His publications include Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism and Irish Culture (2004), Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (2003), The Quiet Man (2002), Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), and (with Kevin Rockett and John Hill) Cinema and Ireland (1988). He is currently preparing Joyce’s Ghosts: Ireland, Memory and Colonial Modernity for publication.
   This talk will discuss the Irishness of Irish art in terms of form rather than representation, contending that the most important aspects of a work's relation to its culture lie in aesthetic qualities often considered as lying outside history, or beyond questions of power and politics.




All are welcome to this free event.
To secure your place, please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com


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