Limits of the visible : representing the great hunger /

Limits of the visible : representing the great hunger /

The absence of photographs of the Irish Famine has been attributed to the shorcomings of a medium then in its infancy, but it may also be due to certain limitations in the visible itself. Susan Sontag argued that images can evoke sentimental responses but cannot address wider political questions of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibbons, Luke
Corporate Author: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hamden, Conn. : Quinnipiac University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Famines > Ireland.
Famines in art.
Hunger in art.
Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland > History > 19th century.

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