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@davidrevoy I find it weird that type designer, child abuser, bestialist, adulterer – documented in his diary – Eric Gill has been carefully exempted from such critique. There have been some moves to remove his sculptures, but I've never seen anything big – such as universities, companies and in particular the major publishing, type and graphics software companies, distance themselves from Gill Sans and Perpetua, for instance. 2 comments
@davidrevoy I think that there's something deeper going on – we don't seem to have a way to celebrate good work without entangling it with the person who did it. Not naming ideas after people might help. Taxonomists have been making big efforts under way to remove eponyms in order to stop overriding pre-existing knowledge with western modernism. But so far it's more about colonialism and imperialism than about detaching, say, a bird or beetle from a dirty individual. |
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@libroraptor Yes, at least his paragraph on Wikipedia is well detailed for whomever wants to get the info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill#Sexual_abuse .
I just hope poeple will check this before praising the historical figures, to not make more statues or more golden letters to them. The knowledge is now public and sourced.