The download includes Regular weight in OpenType format. Includes upper and lowercase, numbers, and punctuation. It is ideal for large formats like headings, posters and signs. Lanark, named after his most famous novel, is a display, sans-serif in one weight: Regular. Versions of this type appear in his books, on illustrations, on paintings and in murals - notably at the Hillhead Station of the Glasgow Underground. It is inspired by the lettering created by the Scottish writer, artist and polymath, Alasdair Gray who The Guardian newspaper called “the father figure of the renaissance in Scottish literature and art”. The Cult of the White Goddess in Alasdair Grays Lanark Gavin Miller Follow this and additional works at: Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Miller, Gavin (2004) 'The Cult of the White Goddess in Alasdair Grays Lanark,' Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. What was felt as tastes, caresses, dreams and thoughts could be seen as a cleverly articulated mass of garbage.A striking humanist display font inspired by Alasdair Gray's distinctive type.
He thought of elastic muscle, pulsing tubes, gland sacks full of lukewarm fluid, the layers of cellular and fibrous and granular tissues inside a head. He thought of sectioned brains, palettes, eyeballs and ears seen in medical diagrams and butcher’s shops. Lanark (Canongate Classic) Paperback by Alasdair Gray (Author), William Boyd (Introduction) 313 ratings Part of: Harper Colophon Books (71 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 25.39 24 Used from 19.05 31 New from 19.47 Paperback 7.32 13 Used from 7.
The book is also described here as a cult classic. The Scots author-artist-alcoholic Alasdair Gray wrote his first novel Lanark (1981), subtitled A Life in 4 Books, over a period of thirty years, states its Wikipedia page. He grasped a pencil in his trouser pocket, wishing it were a knife he could thrust through his cheek and use to carve his face down to the clean bone. Alasdair Gray’s Novel, Lanark Not what I expected. All the heads in his angle of vision seemed irregular lumps, like potatoes but without a potato’s repose: potatoes with crawling surfaces punctured by holes which opened and shut, holes blocked with coloured jelly or fringed with bone stumps, elastic holes through which air was sucked or squirted, holes secreting salt, wax, spittle and snot. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste. “He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit.
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