Bøger af Johanna Drucker

"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"--

Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis of graphical knowledge and argues for studying visuality from a humanistic perspective, exploring how graphic languages can serve fields where qualitative judgments take priority over quantitative statements of fact.

This anthology of articles selected from The Journal of Artists' Books contains some of the best critical writing on artists' books produced in the last quarter of a century.

Bridge Volume 23, Number 1: DATA 1: APPARITIONSSECTIONS & EDITORSPublisher & Editor-in-Chief Michael WorkDATA 1: APPARITIONS A first in an occasional series of data-themed volumesSECTIONS & EDITORSPublisher & Editor-in-Chief Michael WorkmanArchitecture David SundryCouture Kristin MarianiDance & Performance Art Michelle KranickeFiction Meghan LambPhilosophy Mark TschaepeVisual Art Laura KinaMusic Efua OseiCover Image: Allen Moore, 2022CONTENTSLetter from the Editor - Michael WorkmanPUBLIC UTILITIES, the Bridge not for profit spotlight: CivicLab POETRY - Jeanne Morel, Warren LemingFICTION - Judith Brotman, Jae GreenFEATURE "Time Seen" by Johanna DruckerVISUAL ART "Stock Charts" by Richard MinskyINTERVIEW "Studio Visit" with Allen Moore by Michael WorkmanCONTRIBUTORSFiction Illustrations by Maura Walsh

Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever) been subject to so highly focused and detailed a study. The text and graphical presentation are fully integrated, co-dependent, and mutually self-reflexive. This small book work should be of interest to writers, bibliographers, designers, conceptual artists, and anyone interested in the meta-language of diagrammatic thought in graphic form.

"From codex to document, from performance to self-image, the world of artists' books is made available to student and teacher, collector and connoisseur." -Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Library JournalNow Back in Print! Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentieth-century art form. By situating artists' books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, Drucker raises critical and theoretical issues as well as providing a historical overview of the medium. Within its pages, she explores more than two hundred individual books in relation to their structure, form, and conceptualization. This latest edition of the book features a new preface by Drucker and includes an introduction by New York Times senior art critic Holland Cotter. Prior praise for Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books: "[Drucker] locates the artists' book, in all of its multitudinous aspects, within every significant modern movement and draws on an extensive bibliography of scholarly references to reveal the philosophical and artistic connections among the several emerging avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century.... The book vastly expands our understanding of the interdependence of structure and meaning in artists' books."--Buzz Spector, Art Journal "A folded fan, a set of blocks, words embedded in lucite: artists' books are a singular form of imaginative expression. With the insight of the artist and the discernment of the art historian, Drucker details over 200 of these works, relating them to the variety of art movements of the last century and tracing their development in form and concept. This work, one of the first full-length studies available of artists' books, provides both a critical analysis of the structures themselves and a basis for further reflection on the philosophical and conceptual roles they play. From codex to document, from performance to self-image, the world of artists' books is made available to student and teacher, collector and connoisseur. A useful work for all art collections, both public and academic." Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Library Journal

Diagrammatisk skrift er en poetisk demonstration af bogformatets evne til at producere mening. En forunderlig tekst folder sig ud på siderne, der ikke bare læses af en læser, men også af teksten selv, som nysgerrigt holder øje med sine egne semantiske og grafiske udfoldelser på papiret. En tør poetisk dramatik udspiller sig for læserens blik: brødtekster i karambolage med umage marginer, noter i nærkontakt med tekstafsnit på afveje, kolonner som søjler i tilsyneladende tomme rum, enkeltsætninger som monologer om deres egne forsvindingspunkter. En tekstvidenskabelig overflod af viden i litterær form.Den danske udgave er grafisk set 99% (sprog skubber til form) identisk med originaludgaven “Diagrammatic Writing” udgivet i 2014 på forlaget Onomatopee.Johanna Drucker er forfatter og bogkunstner, kendt for sit arbejde inden for eksperimentel typografi. Hun har udgivet andre bøger og holdt foredrag om emner relateret til bogens historie, samtidskunst, grafisk design og digital æstetik. Johanna er Breslauer-professor i bibliografiske studier ved informationsstudiet ved University of California, Los Angeles.Oversat og sat af Kamilla Jørgensen.

Written by the author who cofounded SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims, this book explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge.

Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works.

For more than a half-century, Boris Drucker has created a livelihood and a reputation as a cartoonist. Documenting Drucker's career, this collection represents his work as a graphic artist, and includes his art school drawings, World War II sketchbooks from India, early advertising assignments, and many cartoons.