Conclusion – or against conclusions
Conclusion – or against conclusions
In his short, fragmentary text ‘Some notes on problems and possibilities’, Willie Doherty writes of ‘the impossibility of the task/to find a trace of some essential matter/to make an image’. What results, he suggests, is ‘barely emerging // an inadequate response’.1 In addressing the art of Northern Ireland’s post-Troubles period in this book, it has been essential to acknowledge something of this impossibility and inadequacy. It has been vital to stress how the perspectives of Doherty and others are insistently partial and provisional, open to question, resistant to closure. These are surely appropriate characteristics to re-emphasise as an attempt is made to bring this discussion to a close – a discussion which, however detailed in parts, could only ever be ‘barely emerging’ in relation to the complexities of this time and place....
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