Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters - Couverture souple

Becker, David P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0914630040 ISBN 13 : 9780914630043

Editeur : Houghton Library,U.S., 2005

Synopsis

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."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Library,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0914630040
• ISBN 13: 9780914630043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Harder; https://www.edel.com; ; Neum�hlen 17; Hamburg; Hamburg; 22763; Allemagne