(2015) Mary Swanzy (1882–1978): A Futurist Painter from Ireland. In: Berghaus, Günter, (ed.) International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, Special Issue, Women Futurists. (pp. 70-86). De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany.

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Mary Swanzy was an important Irish avant-garde painter of the early twentieth century. She studied in Paris for a time and is noted for her paintings inspired by Cubism. However, her œuvre also shows influences of Futurism, which she experienced first-hand in Italy prior to the First World War. This side of her career has received much less attention than the Cubist influences. This paper traces and analyses Swanzy’s relationship with Futurism, and highlights the influences of Futurism on her work. In addition, I shall situate Swanzy’s relationship with Futurism within the context of the reception of the Italian movement in Ireland. Avant-garde art was not particularly prominent in Ireland, a country more concerned with political than artistic issues during the early twentieth century. Unlike Cubism, Futurism never made any significant inroads into Irish society. Cubist paintings were exhibited in Dublin in 1911 and 1912, but there was never a similar Futurist exhibition. Nonetheless, Futurism received a moderate amount of coverage in the Irish press, the characteristics of which will be analysed in this essay.

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