Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 030011432X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alan Bartram is a book designer and author of many titles on graphic design, including Five Hundred Years of Book Design (2001) and Bauhaus, Modernism, and the Illustrated Book (2004), both published by Yale University Press.
About the AuthorAlan Bartram is a book designer and author of many titles on graphic design, including Five Hundred Years of Book Design (2001) and Bauhaus, Modernism, and the Illustrated Book (2004), both published by Yale University Press.
Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were all caught up in its net. Bartram illuminates the complicated meanings of the Futurist designers’ graphic works in order to provide a new understanding of their extraordinary and influential visual language.. The volume features examples of some eighty Futurist books or other designs for print, many of them relatively unknown or previously unpublished, accompanied by new translations of over twenty of the featured texts. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. Typographyuntil then