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Bonnettstown

Photograph
1982 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photograph


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBonnettstown (series title)
Materials and techniques
C-type print
Brief description
C-type print from 'Bonnettstown', Andrew Bush, 1982
Physical description
Photograph
Dimensions
  • Height: 28.2cm
  • Width: 22.3cm
Credit line
Copyright Andrew Bush
Historical context
Andrew Bush’s Bonnettstown series records the decaying elegance of a country house in Ireland which Bush visited for two years in the early 1980's, having met its owners by chance whilst hitchhiking in Europe. He has said, "I realised I had found a great subject in the remnants of a European aristocratic lifestyle, in four elderly people living together in the deteriorating splendour of a glorious estate." Bush focusses on objects normally ignored or taken for granted, such as the cord of a lamp or the dial of a thermostat. Human presence and emotion are suggested through the marks made on such objects by their habitual and daily use.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.1783-1992

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Record createdAugust 4, 2003
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