ShortHand: Eric Gill - British Art’s Darkest Secret
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ShortHand: Eric Gill - British Art’s Darkest Secret

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202628 min

From the BBC and Westminster Cathedral to Penguin paperbacks, typeface creator Eric Gill was once lauded as the eccentric genius behind some of Britain’s most iconic visual landmarks. But behind the scenes, he was also a sex-mad monster who shamelessly abused his own daughters within the rural Catholic artisanal communes where he lived and worked… And the art world covered it all up for decades. TL;DR – Did you know one of the UK’s most celebrated sculptors and graphic designers was actually a notorious nonce? Neither did we. -- Patreon...

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I'm a young man who is a man who is a man of the same age. A man who is a man of the same age who is a man of the same age. And now, I'm going to play a song with you. I'm going to play a song with you.

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