Baskerville in France A conference organised by John Baskerville (1707–75) was the École supérieure d’art an English typographer, printer, et de design (Amiens) industrialist and Enlightenment and the Centre for Printing figure with a worldwide reputa- History and Culture tion. He not only designed one (Birmingham) with the support of the world’s most popular and of the Ministère de la Culture, important typefaces, he also the Baskerville Society and the experimented with casting type, Bibliographical Society improved the construction of the printing press, trialled a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his Venue time, had an international impact Ministère de la culture and did much to enhance the et de la communication printing and publishing industries DRAC Hauts-de-France of his day. Site d’Amiens 5 rue Henri Daussy Baskerville, however, was a 80000 Amiens prophet without honour in his own land and ‘only in France did Registration he meet with the encouragement
[email protected] he undoubtedly deserved.’ This conference considers the impact of Baskerville in France from the eighteenth century to the present day. Papers will present the tech- nical, aesthetic, literary, political or philosophical influences of Baskerville on France and France on Baskerville. A companion exhibition displays rare artifacts, Typefaces: Cardone Grotesk, Fátima Lázaro (EsadType 2016-18) and Baskerwille (designed after the types of Claude Jacob by books and documents related to Alexis Faudot, Rémi Forte, Morgane Pierson, Rafael Ribas, Tanguy Vanlaeys & Rosalie Wagner / ANRT 2017). his career and his posterity.