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Pioneers of modern typography / Herbert Spencer.
LIBRA Z116.A3 S6 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Herbert, 1924-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- History.
- Graphic design (Typography)--History.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Art, Modern--20th century--History.
- Art, Modern.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1&2)
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition / with a new foreword by Rick Poynor.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- A revised edition of the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography, illustrated with many iconic examples.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- El Lissitzky
- Theo van Doesburg
- Kurt Schwitters
- H.N. Werkman
- Piet Zwart
- Paul Schuitema
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- Herbert Bayer
- Jan Tschichold.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2nd rev. ed. London : Lund Humphries, 1982.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [159-160]).
- ISBN:
- 0262693038
- 9780262693035
- OCLC:
- 54663187
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