Be it Gill Sans or the Stations of The Cross at Westminster Cathedral; his work is still totally relevant today.A well-researched life, sadly let down somewhat by the lack of meaningful discussion of the artist's work. Nowadays, such information is likely to give rise to calls to have his body dug up for posthumous burning as a heretic and for the shunning of his work by all decent individuals (and I gather that there actually is a website dedicated to the boycotting of his Gil Sans font).I was not all that familiar with Eric Gill outside of his work with type design and wood engraving, so this book came as quite a surprise. Eric Gill was a great artist.
Fiona MacCarthy makes no apologies for Gill, but tries to understand him in the context of his times.
This undermines the legacy of his work, which occurs more as stepping stones throughout as calibrations showing what is happening at which point in the artist's life.An engrossing biography of an artist with modern artifacts presented in a medieval setting. I love his sculpture, his woodcuts and his typefaces - but the man himself is just awful. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (; 22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.His religious views and subject matter contrast with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art, and (as mentioned in his own diaries) his extramarital affairs and sexual abuse of his daughters, … He married in 1904 and joined the Fabian Socialist Society in 1905. He is probably best known for his typeface Gill Sans which became ubiquitous from the 1920s onwards, but he was also famous in his own day for his radical views and eccentric appearance.. This biography is well regarded so I decided to read it.What a wacko. He took a highly moralistic, quasi- religious … Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Gill's contribution to modern culture can still be seen everywhere. He had numerous affairs and had sex with his sisters and daughters, as detailed in his diaries. I liked the … I watched the BBC programme ‘How to be Bohemian’ recently and discovered for the first time the story of Eric Gill, ‘one of the most respected British sculptors of the 20th century’.. As well as being described as ‘bohemian’ he was also described as a sexual deviant; he said in his own diaries he had had … Fiona MacCarthy makes no apologies for Gill, but tries to understand him in the context of his times. by Faber Faber Published
His private life was full of contradictions.Mind boggling! Superb biography that I found difficult to put down.Fiona MacCarthy was an English biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-Century art and design.Fiona MacCarthy was an English biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-Century art and design.
This makes me consider rereading the Malcolm Yorke biography, which I recall grappled valiantly with the problem but didn't quite pull it off (maybe because Yorke was more circumspect? This is the book that first revealed to the world (on the basis of an autobiographical manuscript) that the man was having sex with his sisters, his daughters and (not sure whose) dog. She went on to say that her own attitude to sex had not been harmed. When Fiona MacCarthy embarked upon a biography of artist-craftsman Eric Gill, she was unprepared for the hostility that would greet revelations about his incestuous past. That being sI was not all that familiar with Eric Gill outside of his work with type design and wood engraving, so this book came as quite a surprise. Besides his endless creative energy, he seems to have a hyperactive libido. As is noted in Distributist Perspectives, he is one of the founding members of the Distributist worker … He also became a founder-member of the newly established Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. I first discovered the typefaces of Eric Gill when I was designing publications for the Young Communist League and the Communist Party in the…
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