Christian Dupont unveils Rowan Gillespie’s Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates at Boston College.
Bearing the dignity and authority of marble busts of Roman nobleman, Rowan Gillespie’s Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates (2012) confronts viewers eye-to-eye from stalwart square columns engraved with words that brought their authors everlasting fame. Meet Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney at the ages when they received their prizes, captured by Gillespie in the constancy of bronze at his Clonlea Studio in Blackrock, Co Dublin
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