Art-nonsense and other essays
Author:
Gill, Eric
Typographer:
Gill, Eric
Publisher:
Cassell & Co. Ltd.
Publisher:
Walterson, Francis
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
By Eric Gill
Contents: Slavery and freedom.--Essential perfection.--A grammar of industry.--Westminster cathedral.--Dress.--Songs without clothes.--Of things necessary and unnecessary.--Quae ex veritate et bono.--Stone-carving.--Wood-engraving.--Indian sculpture.--A war memorial.--The revival of handicraft.--The problem of parish church architecture.--Responsibility, and the analogy between slavery and capitalism.--Id quod visum placet.--Architecture and sculpture.--Art and love.--Christianity and art.--Essay in aid of a grammar of practical aesthetics.--The enormities of modern religious art.--The criterion in art.--The future of sculpture.--Art-nonsense
109 p : illus ; 20 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1929
Title-page illustrated with engraving. "Printed by the Cambridge University Press for Messrs Cassell & Co. Ltd, and Mr Francis Walterson. The type, of which this is the first use, is the "Perpetua", designed by the author and cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation Limited, London."--Colophon. Bound in blue cloth, gold stamped. With dust-jacket.
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Accession number: PB 380-2003
Primary reference Number: 98324
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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