Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
The alphabetic labyrinth : The letter in history and imagination / Johanna Drucker - Londres, Inglaterra : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999. - 320 páginas, il.
Con 339 ilustraciones.
I. The Alphabet in Context -- II. Origins and Historians -- III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period -- VI. The Kabbalah -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance -- VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century --
IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History -- X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination.
0500280681
Colección Mosqueda
Alfabeto
Historia de la Escritura.
Sistema de escritura
Letras
The alphabetic labyrinth : The letter in history and imagination / Johanna Drucker - Londres, Inglaterra : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999. - 320 páginas, il.
Con 339 ilustraciones.
I. The Alphabet in Context -- II. Origins and Historians -- III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period -- VI. The Kabbalah -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance -- VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century --
IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History -- X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination.
0500280681
Colección Mosqueda
Alfabeto
Historia de la Escritura.
Sistema de escritura
Letras