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Le neuvième art : Les cahiers du musée de la bande dessinée.
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ISSN: 1268757X Year: 1996 Publisher: Angoulème

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Die Kunst : Monatshefte für freie und angewandte Kunst.
ISSN: 03411974 Year: 1900 Publisher: München München Bruckmann Thiemig


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La graphique dans la presse : informer avec des cartes et des diagrammes
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ISBN: 2859000283 9782859000288 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : Presse et formation CFPJ,

Clean new world : culture, politics, and graphic design.
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ISBN: 0262122375 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT Press

The Visible World : Experimental Typography and Modern Art 1909 - 1923.
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ISBN: 0226165027 9780226165028 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, however, the tenets of New Criticism and High Modernism had polarized the visual and the literary. Drucker suggests a methodology closer to the actual practices of the early avant-garde artists, based on a rereading of their critical and theoretical writings. After reviewing theories of signification, the production of meaning, and materiality, she analyzes the work of four poets active in the typographic experimentation of the 1910s and 1920s: Ilia Zdanevich, Filippo Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Tristan Tzara. Few studies of avant-garde art and literature in the early twentieth century have acknowledged the degree to which typographic activity furthered debates about the very nature and function of the avant-garde. The Visible Word enriches our understanding of the processes of change in artistic production and reception in the twentieth century.

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