Shared Legacy

Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK. John Morrison is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

• Contents: Introduction, Fintan Cullen and John Morrison; 'Schottenstift: a quiet mix': artists of the Scottish diaspora, their integration with and contribution to European visual culture, Jeremy Howard; 'Into the Cyclops eye': James Barry, historical portraiture, and colonial Ireland, Luke Gibbons; Envisioning Burns, Murdo Macdonald; Towards a national art?: George Petrie's two versions of The Last Circuit of Pilgrims of Clonmacnoise, Tom Dunne; Highlandism and Scottish identity, John Morrison; Marketing national sentiment: lantern slides of evictions in late nineteenth-century Ireland, Fintan Cullen; Imagining and imaging the land: some ideological formations of landscape photography in Scotland, Tom Normand; Authenticity and identity as visual display: Scottish and Irish home arts and industries, Janice Helland; Patterns of taste: Scottish collectors and the making of cultural identity in the late nineteenth century, Frances Fowle; The cultural front: Scotland and Northern Ireland, 1940-42, Euan McArthur; Excavating Room 50: Irish painting and the Cold War at the 1950 Venice Biennale, Fionna Barber; Mapping emotion: longing and location in the work of Kathy Prendergast, Catherine Nash; Index.

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