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"A strange and exotic presence in Irish art," "standing alone" and "very un-Irish" were some of the epithets used to describe Patrick Hennessy (1915-80), one of Ireland's most successful realist painters in the postwar period. Hennessy was educated at Dundee College of Art and in 1937 won a scholarship to Paris where he worked for a time under Fernand Léger. He fused the Surrealist subjectivity he learned there with realism to create works unlike anything being made at the time, including portraits, landscapes, equine studies and still-lifes that found a steady market in Ireland, the UK and the USA. But he painted male nudes and portraits of handsome men that puzzled critics who branded him "something of an outsider." At a time when people were persecuted for their sexual orientation, he made works containing narratives of homosexual life that align him with the queer-art movement that emerged in the 1970s. This publication sheds light on this critically neglected artist and reflects on what his work might mean to an audience today.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Oct. 6, 2012-Feb. 3, 2013.

Creative Ireland provides a rigorous appraisal of Irish contemporary visual arts practice across all forms of media. It profiles 100 leading Irish visual artists active between 2000-2011, including Gerard Byrne, Dorothy Cross, Blaise Drummond, McDermott & McGough, Tom Molloy, Richard Mosse, Clive Murphy, Seamus Nolan, Alan Phelan, Hannah Starkey and Donovan Wylie.

This artist's book serves as a retrospective monograph on the Dublin-based multimedia artist Dennis McNulty (born 1970), documenting selected pieces starting with the artist's submission to the 2004 São Paulo Biennial and continuing through to the present. An electronic musician, McNulty employs audio as a sculptural material in his videos, sculptures, installations and performances.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Conversations, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 21 February - 20 May; Museo del Novecento, Milan 30 September - 15 Jan 2012; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 9 February - 19 June 2011.

Out of the Dark Room comprises a selection of works drawn from the exceptional collection of modern and contemporary photographs pledged to the Irish Museum of Modern Art by collector David Kronn. As diverse as photography itself, the collection traces some of the key developments in twentieth-century photography's approach to architecture, landscape and portraiture.

Philip Taaffe (born 1955) emerged in the 1980s alongside a generation of American painters who breathed new life into abstraction, at a time when it had been somewhat languishing in the wake of Pop art and Minimalism. Heavily layered and often grand in scale, Taaffe's paintings renew abstraction through a meticulous juxtaposition of appropriated symbols and emblems from a multitude of customs and epochs, many of which the artist encounters during his travels through South America, India and the Middle East. Taaffe's art is thus both beautiful and erudite, informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of literature and anthropology. "Philip Taaffe: Anima Mundi"features mixed-media and mostly abstract paintings executed over the past ten years. It includes original texts by Colm Toibin and Enrique Juncosa as well as an interview between Taaffe and David Brody.

Subtitle on colophon and dust jacket: The arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s.

What We Call Love explores how the notion of love has evolved within the 20th century. How have seismic sociological changes concerning sexuality, marriage and intimacy affected the way we conceive love today? How does visual art, from Surrealism to the present day, deal with love? This book draws on Surrealism's idea of love as "l'amour fou" (mad love) and new visions of love which emerged after the 1960s. Artists include Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Sadie Benning, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, André Breton, Cecily Brown, Sophie Calle, Marcel Duchamp, Elmgreen and Dragset, Nan Goldin, Felix González-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Jim Hodges, Rebecca Horn, Ghérasim Luca, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Yoko Ono, Benjamin Péret, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Akram Zaatari.

Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) was a pioneering figure in Irish art. She was educated in Paris where she exhibited at the Paris Salons as her work rapidly evolved through different styles: postimpressionism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, symbolism and surrealism--each transformed by her in a highly personal way. Following the devastation of World War I she went to Czechoslovakia as an aid worker; in 1923 she literally crossed the world on an epic voyage to Hawaii and Samoa, producing a body of work that is unique in an Irish context. Throughout the '20s and '30s she exhibited in the USA, Hawaii, UK, Belgium and Ireland, and regularly in Paris at both the Salon des Indépendants and the Beaux-Arts. This publication is the first complete monograph on the artist and aims to introduce the audience to Swanzy's extraordinary achievements and reinstate her reputation as a modernist Irish master.