Spellbound: Rethinking the Alphabet by Craig McDaniel (English) Paperback Book

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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 rethin...

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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.

Author Biography

Craig McDaniel is a painter, author, and associate dean and professor of fine arts at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design. He is one of the authors of Spellbound.Jean Robertson is the Chancellor's Professor of Art History at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design. She is one of the authors of Spellbound. 

Table of Contents

Introduction- Chapter 1Listening to the Alphabet: Sounds Chapter 2Looking at the Alphabet: Shapes Chapter 3Rethinking the Alphabet: Pictures Chapter 4Rethinking the Alphabet: Colors Chapter 5The Visuality of Text: Degrees of Spatiality and Translucency Chapter 6Thinking in Scripts: The Look of Arabic by Erica Machulak Chapter 7The Curious Case of Translation Chapter 8Love Letters by Slavs and Tatars by Gabriel Ritter Chapter 9Text and Image in Visual Art Chapter 10Rethinking Visual Language in the Digital Future by Aaron Ganci Chapter 11Visual Culture and Visual Power Chapter 12Conclusion

Details ISBN1783205490 Author Jean Robertson Short Title SPELLBOUND Language English ISBN-10 1783205490 ISBN-13 9781783205493 Media Book Format Paperback Affiliation Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University Year 2016 Imprint Intellect Books Subtitle Rethinking the Alphabet Place of Publication Bristol Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 741.6 AU Release Date 2016-07-01 NZ Release Date 2016-07-01 Publication Date 2016-07-01 UK Release Date 2016-07-01 Pages 250 Audience Professional & Vocational Publisher Intellect We've got this

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