Eric Gill
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Graphic Art & Design, Typography, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Fiona MacCarthy | ISBN: | 9780571265824 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber | Publication: | June 16, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber | Language: | English |
| Author: | Fiona MacCarthy |
| ISBN: | 9780571265824 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Publication: | June 16, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Language: | English |
Eric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.
'A wonderfully detailed account of his personality - so vivid, you feel you know just what it would have been like to visit him at one of his patriarchal communes . . . A Dominican, dining with the Gills, once thought he saw a nimbus shining around Eric's head. Despite the sexual improprieties it unearths, MacCarthy's authoritative biography allows you to understand how someone might have thought that.' John Carey, Sunday Times
Eric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.
'A wonderfully detailed account of his personality - so vivid, you feel you know just what it would have been like to visit him at one of his patriarchal communes . . . A Dominican, dining with the Gills, once thought he saw a nimbus shining around Eric's head. Despite the sexual improprieties it unearths, MacCarthy's authoritative biography allows you to understand how someone might have thought that.' John Carey, Sunday Times
