Bøker av 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 JAB: The Journal of Artists' Books (1994-2020) contains some of the best critical writing on artists' books produced in the last quarter of a century. Driven by the editorial vision of artist Brad Freeman, JAB began as a provocative pamphlet and expanded to become a significant journal documenting artists' books from multiple perspectives. With its range of participants and approaches, JAB provided a unique venue for sustained critical writing in the field and developed a broad subscriber base among institutional and private collectors and readers. It featured artists' profiles, book reviews, reports from book fairs and conferences, interviews with major figures, and much lively debate about how to engage critically with artists' books. More than two hundred writers and artists from nearly two dozen countries around the globe were published in its pages. Contributions came from authors in Australia, North America, Europe, the UK, and South America and from literary studies, visual arts, photography, media theory, and book history as well as other backgrounds. The original issues each had covers designed-and often printed-by individual book artists. Later issues contained artists' books produced exclusively for its subscribers. No other journal dedicated exclusively to artists' books had so long a run or such broad representation. As JAB's visibility increased, more artists and writers contributed to its ongoing exchanges. The essays in this collection are all exemplary works of critical writing that illuminate individual books, artists, or presses but also offer a diverse range of methodological approaches to interpreting these vibrant and compelling works of art. Providing new access to these essays will hopefully inspire new work in creative and intellectual areas of the field and offer a resource to those responsible for teaching and collecting artists' books"--

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.

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.