Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical HistoryIn Tracing the history of typography from 1700 to the present, RobinKinross proposes a new understanding of modern typography, one based on something larger than a simple modernism of style. Modern Typography focuses on the type of a number of countries and contexts, and provides numerous visual examples and a fully annotated bibliography. |
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Enlightenment origins 15 | 15 |
The nineteenthcentury complex 25 | 25 |
Reaction and rebellion 35 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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