The Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters (Houghton Library Publications) - Softcover

Becker, David P.

 
9780914630043: The Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters (Houghton Library Publications)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0914630040 ISBN 13: 9780914630043
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Stephen Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, Harvard left both a collection of graphic works and a body of prose that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, "a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light," a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible "as the search for perpetual motion." David P. Becker's lovingly edited and sumptuously illustrated catalog, which won the American Library Association's 1991 Leab Exhibition Catalog Award for Excellence, bears out Harvard's conviction that typography, which is at once art and craft, must "strive to satisfy the intelligence and not the intelligentsia."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David P. Becker is the former Assistant Curator of Printing and Graphics Arts, Houghton Library at Harvard College Library, Harvard University.

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Verlag
HARVARD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0914630040
ISBN 13 
9780914630043
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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