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Divided as follows, I How Writing Works: 1. Reading the Rosetta Stone, 2. Sound, Symbol & Script, 3. Proto-Writing, II Extinct Writing: 4. Cuneiform, 5. Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 6. Linear B, 7. Mayan Glyphs, 8. Undeciphered Texts, III The First Alphab 10. New Alphabets from Old, 11. Chinese Writing, 12. Japanese Writing, 13. From Hieroglyphics to Alphabet - and Back. Deals with the background of writing in languages world-wide and individuals who did research on their understanding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This critical text focuses on three themes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: 1) the relation of experimental typography used by the artistic avant garde to linguistic theories, 2) the divergence of experimental typography from visual images, and 3) the work of four influential practitioners of experimental typography and their debt to advertising copy, viz., Marinetti, Apollinaire, Tzara, and Zdanevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents shaped texts dating from ancient to contemporary times. Ancient poems are reproduced from Aramaic, Chinese, Japanese, Malayan, Burmese, Tibetan, Urdu, Indian, Sanskrit, Ethipian, Moroccan, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, English, and Hungarian cultures. Bowler's introduction examines the dominant themes of the material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with the content of Russian Avant Garde books held by The British Library. A large number of these books are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was also designated a Delta Original by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology deals mainly with Signalist poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This profusely illustrated book reprints 20th century books or brochures or selections from them which utilize experimental typography. It includes major sections of the works dealing with relatively obscure practitioners of this field such as Guy de Cointet (conceptual text), Robert Fauconnet (typewriter poetry to illustrate a narrative), Martin Solomon (graphic design) and Chang Yee (ideograms). The illustrations accompanying this record are taken from Robert Fauconnet 's typewriter novel, Divertissement mecanographique (1961) no longer in print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This profusely illustrated book reprints 20th century books or brochures or selections from them which utilize experimental typography. It includes major sections of the works dealing with relatively obscure practitioners of this field such as Guy de Cointet (conceptual text), Robert Fauconnet (typewriter poetry to illustrate a narrative), Martin Solomon (graphic design) and Chang Yee (ideograms). The illustrations accompanying this record are taken from Robert Fauconnet 's typewriter novel, Divertissement mecanographique (1961) no longer in print. The Sackner Archive holds an unsigned copy of this book as well that is stored on the reference shelf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This outstanding book traces the history of typographic design through major art movements to a description of new technologies for print design using computers. The chapters include: The Many Faces of Typographic Design; Order out of Chaos-the Russian Avant Garde; The New Typography Crosses the Ocean; The Influence of the Private Presses; Typefaces; Bits, Bytes and Typographic Design. Typefaces are alphabetically listed and their features described as an excellent reference source.This copy is the first edition whereas the duplicate is a first edition, second printing in 1991.Editorial review: Suddenly, the universe of people making typographical decisions has expanded. Effective visual communication through the informed manipulation of the size and style of type, its placement on a two dimensional surface, its integration with graphic material, and the quality of its reproduction is within reach of anyone who has a computer. Typographic Communications Todayplaces this phenomenon...

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This book deals with book covers and photomontages of the Russian Avant Garde. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Twin sisters, Susan and Dorothy Yule produced a facing pages spread of typed shaped poetry that was published in U&lc Vol.2 No.4 1975. Although the Sackner Archive has an extensive run of the original issues, it is missing this one. Hence, the reason for depicting this work in this record. Mamoun contributes designs based upon the square kufic (pages 79-79).Amazon.com: U&lc: influencing design and typography, is a recently published book that chronicles the acclaimed magazine from its birth in 1973 through the last issue printed in 1999. John D. Berry, U&lc editor for the last two years of printed issues and creator of its companion web publication, U&lc Online, takes us back to the inception and raison d'etre for the magazine. Right from its start in 1973, U&lc rocked the socks off graphic designers and type lovers across America and the world. I have not found any estimates of circulation during the earlier years, but at its peak approximately 200,000 copies...

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This is an anthology of contemporary concrete poetry mainly from German speaking poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins...

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Consists of critical essays with photographic reproductions of several poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket description: What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information"” a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people's words"”framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of "unoriginal" writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, "personal" than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and 90s.Perloff traces this poetics of "unoriginal genius" from its paradigmatic work, Benjamin's encyclopedic Arcades Project, a book largely made up of citations. She discusses the processes of choice, framing, and reconfiguration in the work of Brazilian...

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This book is a bibliography of sound poetry and texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Scholz presents a history and critical analysis of sound poetry with emphasis on German and Austrian poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a bibliography of sound poetry recordings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.