Script, print and letterforms in global contexts the visual and the material / Sahar Afshar, Wei Jin Darryl Lim and Vaibhav Singh.
| Other author | Afshar, Sahar, 1989 |
| Other author | Lim, Wei Jin Darryl, 1984 |
| Other author | Singh, Vaibhav, 1983 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2025] |
| Description | viii, 212 pages illustrations 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | Printing history and culture, 2504-4915 ; volume no. 6 |
| Contents | The onset of Gurmukhi printing in India / Sahar Afshar -- Early Mexican manuscripts and the acquisition of alphabetic writing in Mesoamerica / Jesús Barrientos Mora -- Issues with early lithography in Batavia: borrowed presses and 'soiled' stones / Wei Jin Darryl Lim -- Printed Hours: Networks of printers, devotion and the repetition of images in a Parisian incunable / Svenja Michel -- Shaping the visual identity of Modernist poetry: the role of the typographical layout in Symbolist and avant-garde poems / Eliza Deac -- The Case for Collective Control: The Leveller magazine and publishing as a prefigurative political form / Guglielmo Rossi -- A 'new' Socialist Polygraphic School: typographic education in Communist Romania (1948-89) / Stoenescu, Arina -- Themes in the globalization of typeface design / Gerry Leonidas -- Reflections on studying the history of printing in India / Robin Jeffrey. |
| Abstract | "The global history of text-based communication constitutes a particularly exciting facet of material culture, given the myriad ways in which its production, transmission, and consumption has been - and continues to be - accomplished across cultural and political boundaries. However, a critical engagement with script and print outside the western world has remained relatively limited to summaries and generalisations, despite a burgeoning interest in the interrelated areas of printing, publishing, design, and type histories. The time is long overdue for these narratives relating to the material production of text to expand, and address the rich variation and particularity of global practices. Covering a variety of scripts and linguistic contexts, this volume explores the plurality of historical and contemporary engagements with, and interpretations of the printed and written word in various artefacts, printing technologies, and writing systems. Part of the Printing History and Culture series by the Centre for Printing History and Culture, this book presents critical perspectives and fresh approaches toward the study of the visual and material aspects of print in diverse linguistic environments - whether handwritten, lithographed, typographically printed, or digitally manifested"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025004096 |
| ISBN | 9781789975031 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
| ISBN | epub |
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