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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The search for identity is one of the key motivations for making art. And art as a language begins where the verbal limitations of expression expire according to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In Ireland historically the creative current has flowed between the churning wake of political instability and the equally volatile weather systems that spit and fizz across the land as though the device of pathetic fallacy were a national weathervane. The cultures of Ireland and England have been entangled for some eight centuries and with them national identities. Finding out who you really are is more complicated than ever. The diversity of medium and the fusion of themes in the contemporary art sphere coupled with the speed of communication today is a reflection of how our impatient world is shrinking. The trend towards multiculturalism in giant cities has led to a gloopy melting pot in many cases where societies don’t blend so easily. London today is an exception. Nowhere can the success of multi-ethnic co-existence be more experienced than among its citizenry. Among the large foreign populations that have made London their home the Irish are per-haps now the most integrated living as Londoners across the social spectrum. A small anomaly in this bi-cultural cross pollination however lies in the field of Irish visual art. Whereas Irish poets playwrights novelists actors and musicians have flourished in London and form part of the British art narrative Irish contemporary artists are little recognised and under-represented except for a notable few. (SP)