william butler yeats – un regard oblique

Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Portrait of Japanese dancer Michio Ito as ‘The Hawk’ in W.B. Yeats play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916

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GIF with various images by Alvin Langdon Coburn of Japanese dancer Michio Ito

rehearsing

as ‘The Hawk’ in
William Butler Yeats’ half Celtic half Japanese Noh play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916

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From the exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation). Its goal is to examine how the

uniquely

highly stylized ancient
Japanese art form of Noh has shaped art outside of Japan in multiple mediums throughout the twentieth century.