Visions of nighttown
Discusses a new edition of 10 photopolymer etchings inspired by the nighttown episode in the Irish writer James Joyce's novel Ulysses by the Irish artist Charles Cullen, to be shown at the Davis Gallery in Dublin (June 2004). The author summarizes the scene set by Joyce, which sees the characte...
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| Published in | Irish arts review (2002) pp. 78 - 83 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.07.2004
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| Summary: | Discusses a new edition of 10 photopolymer etchings inspired by the nighttown episode in the Irish writer James Joyce's novel Ulysses by the Irish artist Charles Cullen, to be shown at the Davis Gallery in Dublin (June 2004). The author summarizes the scene set by Joyce, which sees the character Leopold Bloom search for the young Stephen Dedalus in Dublin's brothel quarter, and examines how Cullen addressed its hallucinatory overtones, drawing a comparison with the 1980s socially charged Henrietta Street Triptych. She explains what motivated his choice of medium, finding correspondences between the photopolymer etching process and Joyce's palimpsestic writing process, and offers a detailed analysis of the imagery of Nighttown Improvisations (2004; illus.), Ah Glorious Romp (2004; illus.), and New Womanly Man (2004; illus.), whose graphic style she finds redolent of the American artist Cy Twombly, the German artist Horst Jannsen, and the Weimar Expressionists George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1649-217X |