Pioneers of modern typography / Herbert Spencer.
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TextPublication details: Aldershot : Lund Humphries, 2004.Edition: Rev. ed. / with a new foreword by Rick PoynorDescription: 158 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0853318972 (pbk)
- 686.22 SPE
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 686.22 SPE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000364175 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Modern typography does not have its origins in the conventional printing industry, instead, its roots are entwined with those of 20th-century painting, poetry and architecture. This text examines what led up to the new concepts in graphic design and carefully disentangles the various influences.
Previous ed.: 1982.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- New Foreword
- Introduction
- El Lissitzky
- Theo van Doesburg
- Kurt Schwitters
- H.N. Werkman
- Piet Zwart
- Paul Schuitema
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- Herbert Bayer
- Jan Tschichold
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher-scientist, was---with the anthropologists Edward Burnett Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan---one of the three great cultural evolutionists of the nineteenth century. A contemporary of Charles Darwin (see Vol. 5), he rejected special creation and espoused organic evolution at about the same time. He did not, however, discover, as did Darwin, that the mechanism for evolution is natural selection. He was immensely popular as a writer in England, and his The Study of Sociology (1873) became the first sociology textbook ever used in the United States. With the recent revival of interest in evolution, Spencer may receive more attention than he has had for many decades.(Bowker Author Biography)