An edition of Goodbye Gutenberg (2004)

Goodbye Gutenberg

hello to a new generation of readers and writers

1st ed.

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An edition of Goodbye Gutenberg (2004)

Goodbye Gutenberg

hello to a new generation of readers and writers

1st ed.

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416

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Cover of: Goodbye Gutenberg
Goodbye Gutenberg: hello to a new generation of readers and writers
2005, Global Renaissance Society
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Goodbye Gutenberg
Goodbye Gutenberg: How a Bronx Teacher Defied 500 Years of Tradition and Launched an Astonishing Renaissance (Designer Writers)
October 2004, The Global Renaissance Society
Hardcover in English - 1 edition

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Table of Contents

1: Hello to a new generation of writers
The first generation
The birth of the designer writer
Writing with body language
Writing in the color of the stars
Writers on designer writing
The visual prophet: William Blake
2: Hello to a new generation of readers
The Gutenberg cliché
Designer writing in Egypt
The visual secrets of Greece and Rome
Dawn of the designer poet: China
The philosopher painters of Maya
The golden ecstasies of Islam
These are the images: Hebrew illuminated manuscripts
Thinking in images: Aristotle in medieval Europe
Seeing the divine in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions
3: Hello to a new generation of women
Godmother of designer writing: Christine de Pisan
Feminine fonts
Booklady: a modern feminine font
4: Beauty and the book
Beauty and the book Part 1
Beauty and the book Part 2
5: Hello to a new generation of teachers
Color in education, advertising and the arts
Color, reading and the brain
Edgar Allan Poe
The eye is full of deceit: Plato
Birth of the comic book: Homer
Measuring the immeasurable: Chaucer
Image magic in Ethiopia
A new generation of visual theorists
Writing outside the box
Chaos in the classroom
6: Hello to the critics and skeptics
Critics of designer writing
Words on trial: ornament and decoration
7: Goodbye Gutenberg
A revaluation of visual values
Dawn of designer prose
The visual vernacular
The old way of reading and the new
Terror in the arts
And so begin the beautiful books.

Edition Notes

"This book is given by John Knudsen in honor of Benjamin Knudsen"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-407) and index.

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New York
Series
Designer Writers series
Other Titles
Honor with Books Program.

Classifications

Library of Congress
Z116.A3 K57 2005, Z116.A3 K55 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
416 p. :
Number of pages
416

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Open Library
OL15581644M
Internet Archive
goodbyegutenberg0000kirs
ISBN 10
0974575038
LCCN
2007321394
OCLC/WorldCat
57519847
Goodreads
732991

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