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The visible word : experimental typography and modern art, 1909-1923 / Johanna Drucker.
Kislak Center for Special Collections Reading Room Z124 .D78 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--History--20th century.
- Printing.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art and literature.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Acknowledgments Introduction: Background Parameters, and Terminology 1: Semiotics, Materiality and Typographic Practice 2: Visual and Literary Materiality in Modern Art 3: Experimental Typography as a Modern Art Practice Marinetti: Materiality and Sensation: Mechanical Synaesthesia Apollinaire: Figuring the Vernacular Zdanevich: Inachievable Essentialism and Zaum Typography Tzara: Advertising Language of Commodity Culture 4: Critical History: The Demise of Typographic Experiment Notes Bibliography Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226165019
- OCLC:
- 29184703
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