Modern typography
Subtitle: an essay in critical history
By: Robin Kinross
Series: The Hyphen Press series
Publisher: Éditions B42
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9782490077175
Subjects: Graphic design (Typography); History; Printing
Description: "In a survey of developments since 1700, this book proposes a new understanding of modern typography: as something larger and more deeply rooted than a modernism of style. Rather, 'modern' is taken to imply an articulate consciousness of action. The book's treatment lays stress on debates over principle and explanations of practice. But full weight is given to the social, technical and material bases of the activity; and the argument is illustrated by freshly made photographs of items not often reproduced before. Sources of information are discussed and extensively listed. The book thus contributes on several levels: as a brisk narrative of historical development, as a springboard for further investigation, as a delineation of modern typography."--Back cover
Notes: Republished of the second edition published by Hyphen Press, 2004, with further corrections

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Modern typography -- -- 2.; title: Enlightenment origins -- -- 3.; title: The nineteenth-century complex -- -- 4.; title: Reaction and rebellion -- -- 5.; title: Traditional values in a new world -- -- 6.; title: New traditionalism -- -- 7.; title: Cultures of printing : Germany -- -- 8.; title: Cultures of printing : the low countries -- -- 9.; title: New typography -- -- 10.; title: Emigration of the modern -- -- 11.; title: Aftermath and renewal -- -- 12.; title: Swiss typography -- -- 13.; title: Modernity after modernism -- -- 14.; title: Examples --; title: Postscript on reproduction -- -- 15.; title: Sources : commentary -- -- 16.; title: Sources : bibliography.