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Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton)
Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton) (1882–1940), stone-carver, engraver, and typographer, who cut lettering and designed types, among them Perpetua and Gill Sans-serif. He settled in Ditchling in 1907, where a community of craftsmen and artists began to gather round him including D. Jones. He worked for some years from 1914 on a commission to carve the Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral. From 1924 he was associated with the Golden Cockerel Press, for which he illustrated many books, including The Four Gospels and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. In his writings Gill proclaimed the religious basis of art, the validity of craftsmanship in the machine age, and the holiness of the body (many of his early works were erotic); his works include Art-Nonsense and Other Essays (1929), The Necessity of Belief (1936), and an Autobiography (1940).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GillArthurEricRowton.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GillArthurEricRowton.html |
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Gill, Eric
Gill, Eric (1882–1940). Artist and type-designer. From 1907 to 1924 he was associated with the Ditchling community and with its press. In the last decade of his life he wrote a number of influential books defending the goodness of natural things, and, in life, even ‘its Rabelaisian buffoonery and pig-style coarseness. All these things are good and holy.’ His expression of this in his personal life created strain for those close to him.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Gill, Eric." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Gill, Eric." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-GillEric.html JOHN BOWKER. "Gill, Eric." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-GillEric.html |
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