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The Alphabetic Labyrinth Johanna Drucker

The Alphabetic Labyrinth par Johanna Drucker

The Alphabetic Labyrinth Johanna Drucker


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Résumé

This text examines the many ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in many key systems over two millennia. The book also presents the more general history of lettering, printing and calligraphy, providing an informative guide for art and cultural historians.

The Alphabetic Labyrinth Résumé

The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination Johanna Drucker

The letters of the alphabet have been the source of some speculation since their invention almost 4000 years ago. Through research this text examines the many ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been used in political, spiritual and religious systems over two millennia. The book also presents the more general history of lettering, printing and calligraphy, as well as using colour illustrations to support the text. The book provides a source to historians studying art, culture or typography.

Sommaire

The alphabet in context; origins and historians; the alphabet in classical history; gnoticism, hermeticism, neo-platonism and neo-pythagoreanism - the alphabet in the hellenistic and early Christian era; calligraphy, alchemy and ars combinatoria in the medieval period; the Kabbalah; rationalizing the alphabet - construction, real character and philosophical languages in the renaissance; the social contract, primitivism and nationalism - the alphabet in the 18th century; the alphabet in the 19th century - advertising , visible speech and narratives of history; 20th century - eclecticism, technology and the idiosyncratic imagination.

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GOR003378795
9780500280683
0500280681
The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination Johanna Drucker
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Thames & Hudson Ltd
19990222
320
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