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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Slight shelf wear only.

Condizione: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover, xxxi + 236pp + 4 pages of glossy colour plates, NOT ex-library. Pencil notations in margins of 20 text pages, sparse pencil underlining in text; some pencil notes also inside the rear board. Else clean, untanned interior with firm binding. Gently toned, untorn dust jacket. -- This seminal study by art historian Thomas Bodkin examines the lives and works of four pivotal figures in the history of Irish art: George Barret, James Arthur O'Connor, Walter Frederick Osborne, and Nathaniel Hone the Younger. First published in 1920, at a key moment of Irish cultural nationalism, the book was one of the earliest scholarly efforts to define a distinct national school of landscape painting. This 1987 edition by the Irish Academic Press is a photolithographic facsimile that retains Bodkin's original text while adding a new, critical introduction by Julian Campbell, which situates the artists within modern art-historical scholarship. The text is structured into biographical essays and critical analyses, exploring the transition from the 18th-century classicism of Barret and the romantic sensibilities of O'Connor to the profound influence of French Barbizon and Impressionist plein air painting on the later work of Osborne and Hone. Bodkin provides detailed descriptions of key paintings, such as Barret's views of the Powerscourt Waterfall and O'Connor's romanticised depictions of the Dargle Valley, while also tracing the artists' professional paths through the Royal Academy in London and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. The volume is enhanced by colour and black-and-white plates and comprehensive appendices that list the works exhibited by each painter at major academies, making it an indispensable foundational reference for the study of Ireland's visual heritage.

Paperback. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.