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LEADER: 02924cam a2200601 i 4500
001 ocm32698774
003 OCoLC
005 20200617073327.2
008 931008s1995 nyuah b 001 0 eng d
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aDrucker, Johanna,$d1952-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe alphabetic labyrinth :$bthe letters in history and imagination /$cJohanna Drucker.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bThames and Hudson,$c1995.
300 $a320 pages :$billustrations, facsimiles ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Printed and bound in Slovenia"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 312-315) and index.
505 0 $aI. The Alphabet in Context -- II. Origins and Historians -- III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period -- VI. The Kabbalah -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance -- VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century -- IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History -- X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination.
520 $aA colorful and thorough exploration of the history of the alphabet and its symbolism in a mystical, philosophical, social, and artistic context.
590 $bArchive
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