Active Literature : Jan Tschichold and New Typography
by Burke, ChristopherFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Chronicle Books Llc
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Summary
Jan Tschichold (1902-74) was one of the most outstanding and influential graphic artists and typographers of the twentieth century.Active Literatureis a thorough study of Tschichold as the premiere proponent of New Typography. Author Christopher Burke uses Tschichold's own books, articles, and personal correspondence to reveal Tschichold as an evangelist as much as a designer. Extensive archival research and a wealth of fresh photographs of his design work put Tschichold's own account of his career, until now the governing narrative, into context.Active Literaturealso features a selection of key texts by Tschichold and an introductory essay by Robin Kinross.
Author Biography
Christopher Burke is a type designer, typographer, and the author of Paul Renner: The Art of Typography.
Table of Contents
| From Johannes to Ivan | p. 15 |
| Making history | p. 27 |
| Elemental typography | p. 29 |
| Berlin, Munich, and the little black book | p. 52 |
| Forming the avant-garde | p. 82 |
| The ring of new advertising designers | p. 98 |
| Photography and photomontage | p. 105 |
| Statistics in Vienna | p. 119 |
| Eastern European connections | p. 121 |
| The international progressed new typography | p. 128 |
| The eye of the storm : a survey in Typoyraphische Mitteilungen, 1933 | p. 131 |
| Seizure | p. 135 |
| Script, type and book | p. 147 |
| Sanserif and small letters | p. 149 |
| Typeface designs 1929-31 | p. 162 |
| Two books on writing and drawing letters | p. 178 |
| Book design 1925-33 | p. 197 |
| Typefaces for phototypesetting 1933-6 | p. 222 |
| Exile | p. 247 |
| British connections | p. 272 |
| From avant-garde to rearguard | p. 286 |
| Elemental typography (1925) | p. 311 |
| Book'art'? (1927) | p. 312 |
| What is new typography and what are its aims? (1930) | p. 314 |
| Where do we stand today? (1932) | p. 317 |
| Select bibliography of Tschichold's writings | p. 321 |
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