Category: Visual Culture

a lecture in Dublin Castle, political and visual culture

I received an email today from an academic, currently working with the OPW in Dublin Castle, but whose special area of interest and expertise is Irish cultural nationalism and the United Irishmen.   The lecture, details below,  is at a slightly awkward time perhaps,  but on the other hand,  this looks like it might be fascinating… Read More a lecture in Dublin Castle, political and visual culture

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African spectacle, the dioramas of New York’s American Museum of Natural Hist.

Tableau & Diorama iv (and the last in the current series on that theme) I love many types of art, architecture, many types of spaces and places.  But for sheer drama and spectacle, for an extraordinary mix of art (the much underrated art of tableau-making) and of science,  this may be the most powerful room… Read More African spectacle, the dioramas of New York’s American Museum of Natural Hist.

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