Michael Healy 1873-1941: An Tur Gloine's stained glass pioneer harry clarke book still influences (and sometimes distorts)

still influences (and sometimes distorts) how people in the West see their own culture and that of others

win over the critics and forge their reputation

Bacon's obsessive effort to record and re-create the human form

Harry Clarke was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator

Michael Healy 1873-1941: An Tur Gloine's stained glass pioneer harry clarke book still influences (and sometimes distorts)This book tells the story of the reclusive artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in this exacting craft, and who worked at the world renowned An T r Gloine (Tower of Glass) studio for almost four decades. Lavishly illustrated, it charts Healy's stained glass career and features images of all his principle windows in Ireland and on three