Willie Doherty: True Nature

by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith

"Willie Doherty's concern as an artist has never been to establish historical truth, but rather has always had more to do with who gets to make it up--and why, and how."

-Caoimh n Mac Giolla Le th

When asked to produce a work for The Society, Irish artist Willie Doherty began with several trips to interview Chicagoans of Irish descent who had never visited Ireland. These accounts form the narrative basis for True Nature. Juxtaposing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000EQAF3W
• ISBN13: 9780941548465
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Renaissance Society at the University of Chic
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.8" x 6.8"