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Traces the history and evolution of writing from ancient times to the present, and discusses how the letters of the alphabet have been invested with political, mystical, and religious significance over the centuries
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This text examines the many ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in many key systems over two millennia. The book also presents the more general history of lettering, printing and calligraphy, providing an informative guide for art and cultural historians.
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The alphabetic labyrinth : the letters in history and imagination / Johanna Drucker
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The alphabetic labyrinth : the letters in history and imagination / Johanna Drucker
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First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 320 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Notes; "First published in hardcover in the United States of America in 1995 by Thames and Hudson Inc., . ."--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-315) and index. Contents; 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. Subjects; Alphabet History. Alphabets. Lettering. Calligraphy. Typography. Iconography - Lettering. Numerology. Printing. 1 Kg. Codice articolo 394848
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