The Inscriptions of Ralph Beyer

John Neilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2021
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-475-9 (ISBN)

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Ralph Beyer (1921-2008), exiled at the age of sixteen from Nazi Germany, made his home and career in Britain. He was a carver of stone inscriptions, best known for his huge ‘Tablets of the Word’ in Basil Spence’s Coventry Cathedral. These broke the mould of classical formality associated with British lettercarving after Eric Gill — their irregularity and roughness offending conventional notions of ‘correctness’. In fact, Beyer had spent a few formative months in Gill’s workshop, but his own unique voice owed as much to his childhood in Weimar Germany and his father’s wide interests, which ranged from Modernist architecture to ‘primitive’ art. In Britain, Beyer came to know Henry Moore and Nikolaus Pevsner, and was influenced by the artist and poet David Jones. He thus straddles both German and British traditions in lettering as well as the wider art world.

This book, profusely illustrated, charts Beyer’s increasing sensitivity to words and their realisation in stone. It places his inscriptions, and to a lesser extent his typeface design and sculpture, in context, in the process raising questions about hand lettering itself and what place the making of stone inscriptions may have in the modern world.

Published in association with the Crafts Study Centre.

John Neilson is one of the UK’s most respected lettercarvers. He has also written many articles on lettering, and is editor of the journal Forum. He got to know Ralph Beyer during the decade before his death in 2008.

Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Childhood; Chapter 2: Eric Gill and London before the War; Chapter 3: Internment, wartime and the immediate post-war years; Chapter 4: The background: lettering in Britain & Germany in the early twentieth century; Chapter 5: Beginning of a freelance career; Chapter 6: Coventry Cathedral; Chapter 7: Late 1950s and 1960s; Chapter 8: New Harmony; Chapter 9: The last four decades; Chapter 10: Memorials; Chapter 11: Literary texts; Chapter 12: Typefaces & design for print; Chapter 13: Sculpture; Chapter 14: Teaching; Chapter 15: Working practices and assistants; Chapter 16: Influences on Ralph Beyer's 'informal' lettering; Chapter 17: Death, influence and significance; Inventory; Selective bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Vorwort	Edmund De Waal
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations; 195 Illustrations, color; 125 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Desktop Publishing / Typographie
ISBN-10	1-84822-475-3 / 1848224753
ISBN-13	978-1-84822-475-9 / 9781848224759
Zustand	Neuware