Artists International Association
(AIA)An association of left-wing British artists founded in London in 1932 with the aim of achieving ‘the unity of artists against Fascism and war and the suppression of culture’. Originally it was ...
Arts and Crafts Movement
An English decorative arts movement of the second half of the 19th century which sought to revive the ideal of craftsmanship in an age of increasing mechanization and mass production. William Morris ...
Cranach-Presse
German private press, founded in 1913 by Harry, Graf Kessler in Weimar. His main interest was in printing classical texts of antiquity and modern times. Famous contemporary artists and renowned ...
David Jones
(1895–1974),poet and artist. He served in the trenches throughout the First World War, which left him with a lifelong interest in warfare and soldiers. In 1921 he became a Roman Catholic and in 1922 ...
direct carving
Carving a sculptural design directly into a material, most usually stone, as opposed to producing it through a plaster model and then a cast reproduction in a metal such as bronze. The latter ...
Double Crown Club
London dining club of artists, publishers, and typographers founded by Oliver Simon and colleagues in 1924 to promote the appreciation of good printing by discussion and influence rather than ...
Edward Johnston
(1872–1944)Johnston was an important British calligrapher, typeface designer, and educator. After ill‐health had cut short his study of medicine at Edinburgh University he decided to pursue his ...
Elizabeth Taylor
(1912–75),novelist and short‐story writer, was educated in Reading. Her first novel, At Mrs Lippincote's (1945), was followed by eleven more: shrewd observations of middle‐class life in which ...
Father Ignatius
Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837–1908), mission preacher. Aiming to revive the Benedictine Order in the Anglican Church, in 1869 he acquired a site for his monastery at Capel-y-ffin, near Llanthony. A ...
Fleuron
British typographic journal of seven issues (1923–30), founded by Oliver Simon. Edited at first by Simon (issues 1–4) and then by Morison (issues 5–7), it covered both historical research and ...
Golden Cockerel Press
A private press founded in 1920 at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, by Harold Taylor, and taken over in 1924 by Robert Gibbings (1889–1958), wood‐engraver, illustrator, and writer of travel books. ...
Henry Moore
(1898–1986)British sculptor and draughtsman. He was made a CH in 1955 and appointed to the OM in 1963.The son of a Yorkshire miner, Moore studied at Leeds School of Art after doing his military ...
Hew Lorimer
(1907–93)Scottish sculptor, born in Edinburgh, son of the distinguished architect (and occasional painter) Sir Robert Lorimer (1864–1929) and nephew of the portrait painter John Henry Lorimer ...
London Group
An exhibiting society of British artists formed in 1913 when the Camden Town Group petered out and its members amalgamated with several other progressive artists. The first president was Harold ...
relief
[from the Italian rilevare, ‘to raise’]A sculpture made so that all or part of it projects from a flat surface. See letterpress; woodcut.
Robert Gibbings
(1889–1958)Wood‐engraver and book designer. From 1924 to 1933 he was director of the Golden Cockerel Press where he employed many notable engravers including Eric Gill. His most popular work ...
Saint Dominic's Press
A private press founded at Ditchling in 1915 by Hilary Pepler and E. Gill, with D. Jones and Desmond Chute. They formed the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic ...
Serge Chermayeff
(b Groznyy, Azerbaijan, 8 Oct 1900; d Wellfleet, MA, 8 May 1996),British American architect of Russian birth. Chermayeff was educated in Moscow before emigrating to England in 1910 and ...
Signature
British typographic journal, founded and edited by Oliver Simon, lasting fifteen issues (1935–40). Finely produced by the Curwen Press, Signature was printed in letterpress, often with coloured ...
