Irish Arts Review

PrefaceAuthor(s): Alistair SmithSource: Irish Arts Review Yearbook, Vol. 9 (1993), p. 7Published by: Irish Arts ReviewStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20492714 .

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PREFACE

The Irish Arts Review aims to bring to its readers the best studies on Irish Art, art events taking place

in Ireland, and also the work of Irish scholars whose interests extend to the visual arts of other coun

tries. This year in order to chronicle something of the extraordinary vitality and activity of Ireland's

cultural life, we have instituted a Calendar of the Year. Allied with our expanding section of book

reviews and saleroom reports, this will result in the Review becoming an ever more valuable work of

reference for the future.

While this reflects the keen interest of the readers in Ireland now, we also seek to illuminate

Ireland then. Indeed, the core of our enterprise is the publication of art historical research which con

stantly re-examines and re-defines the art of the past.

Accordingly, we have placed emphasis, this year, on Jack B Yeats whose reputation has been

recently enhanced by a number of publications and exhibitions. With our high standard of reproduc

tion, we seek to present our readers with something close to the experience of seeing Yeats' work 'in

the flesh'; and through the research and insight of our authors, we seek to give the reader entry to the

mind within that flesh.

Works of art, and their creators, are admired, loved, coveted, but little understood. It is the pur

pose of the Irish Arts Review to foster that understanding and to help our readers thereby to maintain

intelligent contact with the force of art. In our efforts, we are principally supported by a most

understanding GPA, who aid so many facets of the arts in Ireland, and by the Arts Council of Ireland

and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. To these generous agencies, we, and our readers, are

grateful.

ALISTAIR SMITH EDITOR

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