Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit - Softcover
Eric Gill, sculptor, engraver and typographer, is perhaps the greatest British artist-craftsman of the twentieth century. His most celebrated achievements were sculpture in stone and wood - Prospero and Ariel on Broadcasting House, The Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral - but his typography and stonecutting, his sensuous wood-engravings and drawings reveal his complexity and the variety of his genius. His belief in complete sexual licence shocked his contemporaries, even Augustus John being startled by his succession of mistresses. Paradox, contradiction and ambivalence were never far from the surface in both his life and his work: reviled for his 'pantheistic lasciviousness', Gill nevertheless had a strongly spiritual side. Malcolm Yorke reassesses this cranky, eccentric but vulnerable and modest man and illustrates his life and work with over 100 examples of Gill's engravings, sculptures and erotic drawings.
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An excellent reappraisal: lucid, persuasive and knowledgeable. "Hilary Spurling, Observer"
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Malcolm Yorke is the author of "Matthew Smith: His Life and Reputation."
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0876638833
- ISBN 13 9780876638835
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Eric Gill (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Softcover. Third edition originally published in 1984 by Universe Books, NYC. Book is near fine in pictorial wraps featuring an illustration by Gill. Two tiny blemishes on book's bottom. 8vo., 304 pp. including extensive references and index. Illustrated on virtually every page by an example of Gill's wide-ranging creativity as illustrator, calligrapher, designer of typefaces ("gill sans serif"), sculptor and critic. The impact of the presence of Eric Gill on the arts of the 20th century cannot be overstated. Seller Inventory # 000043
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