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Book SynopsisFocusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how collaborations and differences between members of the Yeats family circle contributed to the metamorphosis of the Irish Cultural Revival into Irish Modernism. Making use of primary materials and fresh archival evidence, Brown delves into a variety of media including embroidery, print, illustration, theatre, costume design, poetry, and painting. Tracing the artistic relationships and outcome of W.B. Yeats's vision through five case studies, Brown explores the poet's early engagement with artistic tradition, contributions to the Dun Emer and Cuala Industries, collaboration between W.B. Yeats and Norah McGuinness, analysis of Thomas MacGreevy's pictorial poetry, and a study of literary influence and debt between Jack Yeats and Samuel Beckett. Having undertaken extensive archival research relating to word and image studies, Brown considers her findings in historical context, with partic
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; W.B. Yeats and the Fraternité des Arts tradition; The Dun Emer and Cuala industries during the Irish cultural revival; W.B. Yeats, Norah McGuinness and Irish modernism; The pictorialist poetics of Thomas MacGreevy; Word and image relations in the later career of Jack Yeats; Bibliography; Index.
