Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of MotionIn The Yeats Brothers, Calvin Bedient delivers a brilliant exploration of modernism through the mutual illumination provided by Irelands greatest poet and greatest painter. By examining the poems of the one and the paintings of the other, he recovers an often overlooked quality both artists embraced in their workthat core feature of modernism, a thoroughgoing preoccupation with motion and fluidity, that terrifying encounter with the universe