New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism: A Conference in Honor of S.B. Kennedy

In 1991, the curator and art historian S.B. Kennedy published his seminal volume Irish Art & Modernism, 1880-1950. This was the first major text to survey the relationship between modern Irish artists and their European counterparts, tracing the impact of a collection of aesthetic preoccupations loosely termed “modernism” within Ireland.

In the decades since the publication of Kennedy’s text, the field of modernist studies has undergone rapid transformation.

Honoring S.B. Kennedy’s career as both an art historian and a long-time curator at the Ulster Museum, this conference will be held in Belfast, with programming at the Ulster Museum and Queen’s University Belfast.

See the full conference schedule.

Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.