Faber & Faber

Eric Gill: Fiona MacCarthy

Synopsis:

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

Tags:

Categorised as:

Non-fiction

Sub-categories:

Art & Design; Biography & Memoir

Genres & Themes:

Design; Pioneers; Sculpture; Typography