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- Title
Migrant travellers and touristic idylls: The paintings of Jack B. Yeats and post-colonial...
- Authors
Cusack, Tricia
- Abstract
The article discusses the work of the painter Jack B. Yeats, with particular focus given to their depictions of Irish entertainers, foot travelers, and landscapes and construction of post-colonial Irish identity. Paintings including "A Place of Islands," "A Welcome," and "Clear the Road" are examined, and Yeats' stylistic modernism is commented on. The argument that the travelers depicted in many of Yeats' paintings are meant to undermine the concept of idyllic rural settings due to their social marginality is also explored.
- Subjects
IRELAND; YEATS, Jack Butler, 1871-1957; IRISH painting; IRISH national character; NATIONAL character in art; POSTCOLONIALISM &; the arts; TRAMPS in art; IRELAND in art
- Publication
Art History, 1998, Vol 21, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.00103