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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19991022
Author:Silver, Joanne

"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone," the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote in his sobering "September 1913." At Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art, "Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political" reaches a similar conclusion.

In work ranging from Mark Francis' misty abstractions of viruses to Abigail O'Brien's installation of The Last Supper with women in the key roles, the 13 artists selected for this show have ventured far beyond tradition. The subject matter, aesthetics and media that served their country well for centuries come into question in their ...

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