Download or read book Eric Gill 1882 1940 written by Eric Gill and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strict Delight written by Eric Gill and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Autobiography written by Eric Gill and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ERIC GILL’s iconoclastic ideas on modern civilization, art, sex, and life generally, drop like bombshells from the pages of this account of his search for “The City of God.” Completely devoid of social or professional ambition and detesting material success, this artist of the first order preferred to live the simple life of a stone cutter and craftsman. Richly illustrated with 36 gravure reproductions of the author’s most outstanding work.

Download or read book Strict Delight written by Whitworth Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twenty Five Nudes written by Eric Gill and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Gill's small book Twenty-five Nudes is both a record of how he believed the human body should be portrayed, and the written rationale for that approach.

Download or read book Eric Gill 1882 1940 written by Eric Gill and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eric Gill written by Malcolm Yorke and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Gill (1882-1940) was an extraordinarily prolific artist. Best remembered today for his typefaces: Gill Sans, Perpetua, Joanna, and for his work for the Golden Cockerel Press, his achievements ranged far wider. He trained in an architect's office, and began his career as a stone-cutter (his gravestones and war memorials are scattered all over England). He was a sculptor in stone and wood - 'Prospero and Ariel' on Broadcasting House and the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral are his work, together with more controversial pieces such as the Leeds War Memorial, and the statue of 'Mankind' in the Tate Gallery. He made many beautiful, sensuous wood-engravings, and his drawings of nudes and his erotic work have perhaps been underrated in the past. In addition he wrote radical pronouncements on art, religion, politics and clothes. #13;#13;He was a cranky, humorous but vulnerable and modest man, seemingly at variance with the dogmatic seer one might assume from reading some of his essays. He dressed eccentrically, discarding trousers in favour of a knee-length tunic and red silk underpants (which he sometimes also discarded when working on the scaffolding at the BBC).#13;#13;He was a man ruled by two equally strong forces: alongside his strong need for a religious framework to his life lay what one of his friends called his 'pantheistic lasciviousness', and his works of art reflect his struggle to unite and express these conflicting needs.#13;#13;This book attempts to draw together all the separate threads of the whole range of Gill's work and to present him as a whole man. Much of Gill's work, Dr Yorke feels, has been undervalued and it is time for a reassessment. The result is an entertaining, critical and informative work, abundantly illustrated with over 100 examples of Gill's work: wood and copper engravings, stone cutting, sculptures in stone and wood, typography, and for the first time, some of his erotic drawings.

Download or read book Strict Delight written by Eric Gill and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Eric Gill written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autographed photograph typed, signed note England Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 - 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art. A deeply religious man, largely following the Roman Catholic faith, his beliefs and practices were by no means orthodox. He published numerous essays on the relationship between art and religion. He also produced a number of erotic engravings. His personal diaries describe his sexual activity in great detail including the fact that Gill sexually abused his own children, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and performed sexual acts on his dog. This aspect of Gill's life was little known until publication of the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy. As the revelations about Gill's private life reverberated, there was a reassessment of his personal and artistic achievement. As his recent biographer sums up: After the initial shock, [...] as Gill's history of adulteries, incest, and experimental connection with his dog became public knowledge in the late 1980s, the consequent reassessment of his life and art left his artistic reputation strengthened. Gill emerged as one of the twentieth century's strangest and most original controversialists, a sometimes infuriating, always arresting spokesman for man's continuing need of God in an increasingly materialistic civilization, and for intellectual vigour in an age of encroaching triviality. Gill died of lung cancer in Harefield Hospital, Hillingdon (formerly Middlesex), in 1940.

Download or read book The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill 1908 1940 written by Eric Gill and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eric Gill the Sculpture written by Judith Collins and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific engraver, sculptor, letter-cutter and typographer, and a prominent figure in the development of British art, Eric Gill (1882-1940) chose to be remembered on his grave simply as a stone carver. He carved his first figural sculpture in 1909, and his distinctive, serene figures have since become familiar landmarks, appearing in numerous churches and on village war memorials, on buildings such as the BBC's Broadcasting House in London and in public and private collections throughout the world. The expressive simplicity of Eric Gill's sculpture derives in part from his practice of carving directly from the block, reviving a tradition largely neglected since the Middle Ages. From slender crucifixes and tender Madonnas to lithe animals and vuloptuous lovers, his figures overflow with what the critic Roger Fry identified as an "unquenchable will to live", a will which sprang from a deep conviction of the interdependence of the spiritual and the sensual sides of life."

Download or read book Eric Gill written by Judith Collins and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific engraver, sculptor, letter-cutter and typographer, Eric Gill (1882 - 1940) chose to be remembered on his grave simply as a stone carver. He carved his first figural sculpture in 1909, and his distinctive, serene figures, such as his famous Stations of the Cross carving in Westminster Cathedral, have since become familiar landmarks and also appear in public and private collections throughout the world. This beautifully illustrated book is the first ever complete survey of Eric Gill's figural sculpture. With an extensive essay on his works and 300 detailed catalog entries, it is a significant contribution to contemporary art history. The 350 accompanying photographs, many from the sculptor's own collection, reveal Eric Gill to be one of the major artists of the twentieth century and afford us a fascinating insight into the creativity of this eccentric genius.

Download or read book An A Z of Type Designers written by Neil Macmillan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This illustrated A-Z features outstanding type designers from around the world, from Gutenberg to the present day. Arranged alphabetically by designer's name, the book contains over 260 biographical profiles. Entries are illustrated by key typefaces taken from a wide range of sources, including type specimens, original posters, private press editions and magazine covers, and also give a list of work and, where applicable, further reading references and a website address. An essential reference for typographers, graphic designers and students, the book also features a full index and eight short texts by leading typographers - Jonathan Barnbrook, Erik van Blokland, Clive Bruton, John Downer, John Hudson, Jean Francois Porchez, Erik Spiekermann and Jeremy Tankard - that cover a variety of different aspects of type design, including typeface revivals, font piracy, designing fonts for corporate identities and the role of nationality in type design."--BOOK JACKET

Download or read book Eric Gill written by Anthony Hoyland and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ERIC GILL: NUPTIALS OF GOD by ANTHONY HOYLAND ERIC GILL (1882-1940) is one of the major erotic artists of the 20th century, and one of the key British modern artists. Gill is still a controversial figure in art. His personal life was notorious for its sexual relationships. Wyndham Lewis called his work 'excellent and ribald', while influential critic Roger Fry, one of Gill's supporters, said Gill's sculpture was 'the outcome of a desire to express something felt in the adventure of human life.' For Eric Gill, eroticism was a vital part of life, and should be openly displayed in art. He moved from nudes to Madonnas easily and simply: sex and religion were part of the same mystery for him. Eric Gill built eroticism into most of his depictions of people. 'Quite mad on sex', Gill wrote of Jacob Epstein, the sculptor, in his diary (December 9, 1913). The statement might equally apply to Gill. He thought of sex a lot, to put it mildly. Eric Gill has become a familiar gure in British modern art and life. He certainly looked the part of the Bohemian artist with his little skull caps, imitation monk's habits, artist's smocks and his penchant for bare feet and sandals (an early hippy? Yep). In his Fabian Society, Arts and Crafts and socialist period, Gill was described (in Blackfriars, 1941) by John Middleton Murry, a key member of D.H. Lawrence's circle, as a 'silent gure in a shabby mackintosh' who rolled his own cigarettes. Gill the Monk. Saint Gill. For Eric Gill, eroticism was a vital part of life, and should be openly displayed in art. He moved from nudes to Madonnas easily and simply. The problematic and erotic relation between life and art, between the human beloved and the art object, is vividly expressed in the way Eric Gill started working in sculpture. By far the most common subject in Eric Gill's sculpture was religious (and Christian): the nudes, acrobats, contortionists and divine lovers may receive more attention in art criticism, but the religious and Catholic sculptures are more numerous: there are Depositions, St Sebastians, Annunciations, Cruci xions, Holy Faces, Mary Magdalenes, angels, cruci xes, memorials, headstones, altarpieces, many Madonna and Childs, and of course the Stations of the Cross series. Fully illustrated, featuring many lesser-known works by Eric Gill, as well as the works of his contemporaries, and from the history of erotic art. With bibliography and notes. 232 pages. ISBN 9781861713223. www.crmoon.com