The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

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Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, howe… More >>

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An Essay on Typography

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An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. It represents Gill at his best opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information.

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Serif Fairy

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The Serif Fairy has lost her wing, keeping her from performing magic. This book follows her through an airy, immaculately designed typographic landscape as she tries to recover the wing. Along the way, she makes friends and has adventures as she wanders through the Garamond forest, visits Futura town and eventually ends her quest at Shelley Lake. An amazing book for type aficionados and their children, The Serif Fairy epitomizes the synthesis of form and function,… More >>

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