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A thorough distillation of what one needs to know about our alphabet. History, mythology, aesthetics and mystic hooey all included and brilliantly discussed herein. WITH tables & graphs and lots of images to look at. Should be on every poet's bookshelf. A masterpiece.
Thoroughly researched book on a fascinating subject. If only the sense of wonder that it could generate was more evident! Drucker's book has all the ingredients, but her writing style leaves it more like a university text book that a book for an enthusiast on the history of the alphabet. It's still a good book, but best taken in small doses.
Borrowed this from the library. It looks very detailed, with lots of great photographs and sketches, but also far too intense for me right now. It's a very big book.
A fantastic treatise on the development of language and writing. With many historical examples and essays on various aspects of the graphic arts tradition.
Drucker recounts the history of the alphabet, with a focus on the symbolic meaning people have afforded it over the century. The book is divided into 10 chapters, which can roughly be thought of as two background chapters, and eight that correspond to various historical periods in Western culture, and how the alphabet was regarded in them. Chapter 3 starts with the Greek and Roman period, with a focus on how the Greeks considered the alphabet as composed of the fundamental building blocks with w...
dense but good if you like that sort of thing.
(Almost done with it) Beautiful beautiful specimens, was very pleased to have seen the original Bodoni, Bickham, Uncial and so many others. Very precise yet thorough walk through the ages of writing. However, because there have been recent archaelogical discoveries, part of her explanation of the origin of the alphabet is incorrect.
