Spellbound
Subtitle: rethinking the alphabet
By: Craig McDaniel + Jean Robertson
Contributors: Robertson, Jean, 1950- author
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781783205493
Subjects: Alphabets; Written communication
Description: "Asserting that written language is on the verge of its greatest change since the advent of the printing press, visual artist Craig McDaniel and art historian Jean Robertson bring us "Spellbound" a collection of heavily illustrated essays that interrogate assumptions about language and typography. Rethinking the alphabet, they argue, means rethinking human communication. Looking beyond traditional typography, the authors conceive of new languages in which encoded pictorial images offer an unparalleled fusion of art and language. In a world of constant technological innovation offered by e-books, tablets, cell phones, and the Internet, McDaniel and Robertson demonstrate provocatively what it would mean to move beyond the alphabet we know to a wholly new system of written communication." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223).
Table of contents: title: ch. 1; title: Listening to the Alphabet: Sounds -- -- ch. 2; title: Looking at the Alphabet: Shapes -- -- ch. 3; title: Rethinking the Alphabet: Pictures -- -- ch. 4; title: Rethinking the Alphabet: Colors -- -- ch. 5; title: The Visuality of Text: Degrees of Spatiality and Translucency -- -- ch. 6; title: Thinking in Scripts: The Look of Arabic by Erica Machulak -- -- ch. 7; title: The Curious Case of Translation -- -- ch. 8; title: Love Letters by Slavs and Tatars by Gabriel Ritter -- -- ch. 9; title: Text and Image in Visual Art -- -- ch. 10; title: Rethinking Visual Language in the Digital Future by Aaron Ganci -- -- ch. 11; title: Visual Culture and Visual Power -- -- ch. 12; title: Conclusion.