56 de scriitori irlandezi au contribuit cu noi povestiri, eseuri și poezii la această antologie inspirată de arta din colecția National Gallery of Ireland. Astfel sunt incluse lucrări ale unor personaje apreciate din literatura irlandeză contemporană, precum Colm Toibin, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann și Seamus Heaney. Fiecare dintre scriitori a selectat o imagine și a folosit-o ca punct de plecare pentru a explora idei despre artă, dragoste, pierdere, familie, vise, memorie, locuri și intimitate.
Publicată pentru a marca cea de-a 150-a aniversare a Galeriei Naționale a Irlandei, această carte frumos ilustrată este editată de Janet McLean, curator al artei europene 1850-1950 la NGI.
Fifty-six Irish writers have contributed new short stories, essays and poems to this anthology inspired by art from the National Gallery of Ireland collection. It includes work by acclaimed figures in contemporary Irish literature such as Colm Toibin, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann and Seamus Heaney. Each of the writers has selected a picture and used it as a setting-off point to explore ideas about art, love, loss, family, dreams, memory, places and privacy. Both the artworks and the literary responses to them are vibrantly diverse.
The works range from paintings by old masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco and Velazquez to pictures by Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard and Gabrielle Munter, and by Irish artists such as Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, Gerard Dillon and Paul Henry. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, this beautifully illustrated book is edited by Janet McLean, Curator of European Art 1850-1950 at the NGI.