Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute, by Nicholas Fox Weber, Alfred A Knopf, 639 pp, £33, ISBN: 978-0307961594 ‘Van Gogh and Gauguin were having an argument about whether physical pain was worse than spiritual pain,’ explained Mondrian. ‘Van Gogh said physical pain was nothing. And to prove it, then and there,…
Irish Art 1920 – 2020: Perspectives on Change, Catherine Marshall & Yvonne Scott (eds), Royal Irish Academy, 448 pp, €38, ISBN: 978-1911479826 Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on Change is an excellent collection of twelve intersecting perspectives that examine Irish art and design as it has evolved over the long twentieth century into the present. The…
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, by Janet Malcolm, Granta, 155 pp, £14.99, ISBN: 978-1783788361 Born Jana Wienerova in Prague in 1934, the elder of two girls, Janet Malcolm was just five when her family escaped from Nazism in July 1939. They had the additional good fortune to find sanctuary in the United States. As…
A fascinating and at times unflinching autobiography from Paul Brady
A source book of commentary over 300 years on Irish art
Traditional fiddler Martin Hayes’s journey to musical self-expression
As the lamps come on, thoughts of a connoisseur of the crepuscular