The Visible Word
Subtitle: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780226165028
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Theory of art; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1900 - c 1914; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - General; Technical & Manufacturing Trades; Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades; Typography
First sentence: The research for this book was begun in an era in which semiotics was considered a useful interpretive tool, but the writing is concluded at a moment in which semiotics itself has become the object of historical and historiographic inquiry.