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Abstract
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | 1 | ||
| Copyright | 2 | ||
| Title | 3 | ||
| Contents | 7 | ||
| Preface | 9 | ||
| Introduction | 13 | ||
| Chapter 1: Listening to the Alphabet: Sounds | 29 | ||
| Chapter 2:Looking at the Alphabet: Shapes | 43 | ||
| Chapter 3: Rethinking the Alphabet: Pictures | 55 | ||
| Chapter 4: Rethinking the Alphabet: Colors | 83 | ||
| Chapter 5: The Visuality of Text: Degrees of Spatiality and Translucency | 109 | ||
| Chapter 6: Thinking in Scripts: The Look of Arabic by Erica Machulak | 131 | ||
| Chapter 7: The Curious Case of Translation | 139 | ||
| Chapter 8: Love Letters by Slavs and Tatars by Gabriel Ritter | 155 | ||
| Chapter 9: Text and Image in Visual Art | 159 | ||
| Chapter 10: Rethinking Visual Language in the Digital Future by Aaron Ganci | 177 | ||
| Chapter 11: Visual Culture and Visual Power | 187 | ||
| Chapter 12: Conclusion | 207 | ||
| Bibliography | 219 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |