Examples of Modern Alphabets Plain and Ornamental
Author : F. Delamotte
Publisher : Operina LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 193422703X
Author : F. Delamotte
Publisher : Operina LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 193422703X
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Alphabets
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Author : Freeman Gage DeLamotte
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781016205238
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Alphabets
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Author : Freeman Gage Delamotte
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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1859
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Alphabets
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Author : Lewis Foreman Day
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Alphabets
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Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0226815811
"Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Erika Mary Boeckeler
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2017-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1609384741
Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics—a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image. Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the “letterature” that underwrites such cultural production. Playful Letters begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the human body—an intersection where letterature emerges with startling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies produced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of typography, orthography, and poetry. These mutually informing processes render visible the persistent crumbling of words into letters and their reconstitution into narrative, poetry, and image. In addition to providing a rich history of literary and artistic alphabetic interrogation in early modern Western Europe and Russia, Playful Letters contributes to the continuous story of how people use new technologies and media to reflect on older forms, including the alphabet itself.