{"id":8039,"date":"2022-04-16T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2022-04-16T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:36:01","slug":"eric-gill-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/04\/16\/eric-gill-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Gill and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a preferred font for your computer use? \u00a0I have two. \u00a0One is\u00a0<em>Gill Sans<\/em>\u00a0which I use for emailing. \u00a0I've done this for some time now liking its clarity and crispness (for want of a better description). \u00a0But should I, given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10404771\/Save-Children-stop-using-texts-designed-paedophile-artist-Eric-Gill.html\">Save the Children<\/a> has said it will stop using the font which was designed by Gill in 1928 because of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2017\/apr\/09\/eric-gill-the-body-ditchling-exhibition-rachel-cooke\">his sexual abuse<\/a> of his family. \u00a0This is well documented and uncontestable as far as I can see.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Gill is the artist whose sculpture that adorns the BBC's flagship building in central London was recently attacked by a bloke with a hammer. \u00a0Was he deranged or merely outraged? \u00a0Who knows. \u00a0He had a very small hammer.<\/p>\n<p>My view of Gill as a man is rock bottom and likely to stay there, but\u00a0I'm sticking with the font from Gill, the artist, as I don't see what good it would do to stop using it. \u00a0So\u00a0I suppose this post is an example of virtue non-signalling.<\/p>\n<p>It's an interesting issue though: should you separate the artist from their non-art actions when these are rebarbative? \u00a0Does it depend on context? \u00a0On timing? \u00a0On the nature of the action? \u00a0These all seem valid questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a preferred font for your computer use? \u00a0I have two. \u00a0One is\u00a0Gill Sans\u00a0which I use for emailing. \u00a0I've done this for some time now liking its clarity and crispness (for want of a better description). \u00a0But should...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}