The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris - Couverture souple

Amert, Kay

 
9781933360560: The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1933360569 ISBN 13 : 9781933360560
Editeur : RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2012

Synopsis

Simon de Colines was one of the greatest typographers, printers and publishers of the Renaissance. He has nevertheless been unfairly neglected. Apart from a pair of scholarly bibliographies, published a century apart, this is the first book-length study of his work. As Robert Bringhurst writes in his introduction to this volume, "Colines as much as anyone built the semiotic structure of the book as we now know it, with its chapter headings and subheads, page numbers and running heads, tables of contents, indices, and source notes. He also cut lucid and beautiful type at a crucial moment: when the Latin and Greek alphabets were still engaged in their historic metamorphosis from manuscript to metal...." But Colines was a great publisher as well as a fine technician. "He printed authors and texts that were central to his idea of civilization - Aristotle, Cicero, Sophocles, Hesiod, Horace, Ovid, Virgil, Statius, Martial, Terence, Euclid, Hippocrates, Galen - along with the best of their Renaissance followers and interpreters. Reading his books, these five centuries later, is a serious education not in typography alone but in philosophy, poetry, astronomy, medicine, law, and mathematics."

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À propos de l?auteur

Kay Amert was a master typographer, a master printer, and a meticulous, insightful typographic historian, particularly knowledgeable in the field of French Renaissance printing and publishing. She was the director of the Typography Laboratory at the University of Iowa. She died in 2008, leaving her work unfinished. Her published and unpublished writings on de Colines have been carefully edited by Robert Bringhurst.

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Éditeur
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1933360569
ISBN 13 
9781933360560
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Broché
Nombre de pages
292
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