Playful Letters - A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics

Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics—a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image.

Product details

• Authors: Erika Mary Boeckeler
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781609384746
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-474-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Impressions; Impressions
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history