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Art-nonsense and other essays: PB 380-2003

Object information

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Titles

Art-nonsense and other essays

Maker(s)

Author: Gill, Eric
Typographer: Gill, Eric
Publisher: Cassell & Co. Ltd.
Publisher: Walterson, Francis
Printer: Cambridge University Press

Categories

Description

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

Place(s) associated

  • London
  • Cambridge (Cambs.)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1929

Note

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.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustration

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 380-2003
Primary reference Number: 98324
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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