The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939

Until recently, scholarship on the Irish Revival, at which William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was the center, focused on the literary dimension, with other art forms arranged prettily around the borders. Brown (art history, U. of Dundee, Scotland) focuses on interactions between word and image in early 20th-century Irish literary and visual culture, drawing on the work of Yeats, his family, and their circle to open up a new space of inquiry between literature and the visual arts. She covers the Dun Emer and Cuala industries during the Irish cultural revival; Yeats, Norah McGuinness, and Irish modernism; pictorialist poetics of Thomas MacGreevy; and word and image relations in the later career of Jack Yeats. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Karen E. Brown is an art historian and curator specializing in interdisciplinarity and visual culture. She has produced a number of publications on twentieth-century Irish art and literature, and is editor of Women's Contributions to Visual Culture, 1918-1939 (Ashgate, 2008). She is currently IRCHSS Postdoctoral Mobility Research Fellow, hosted between the History of Art and Architecture Departments of Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge.