The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual representation and ongoing patterns of remembrance.
The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous heigh...
The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments, and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we associate with dispossession. People around the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty, and famine, the main sites for engaging with their loss being visual news and social media.
In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-19th century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial...
The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments, and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing im...
