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1	Graphic! Design History: A Critical Guide more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist "Graphic Design History" traces the social and cultural role of visual communication from prehistory to the present, connecting what designers do every day to a history of innovative graphic forms and effects. It offers a unique and exciting set of critical lenses for thinking about the cultural purpose and historical dimensions of the graphic ... see all copies from $49.12! new only from $71.65! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts more books like this by Krystyna Wasserman, Johanna Drucker, Audrey Niffenegger (Text by) add to wishlist Artists' books have emerged over the last 25 years as the quintessential contemporary art form, addressing subjects as diverse as poetry and politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers, as well a growing community of ... see all copies from $34.50! new only from $36.20! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that contemporary art is fully engaged with material culture - yet still struggling to escape the ... see all copies from $12.99! new only from $25.19! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist In this critical survey, the author examines the pathbreaking typographic experimentation of early 20th century poets, artists, and designers including Guillaume Apollinaire, F. T. Marinetti, and Ilia Zdanevich. The book argues for a fresh look at their anomalous works, which exhibit aspects of literature and art, and which the author argues have ... see all copies from $16.47! new only from $21.99! \| first editions
5	Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist The letters of the alphabet have been the object of speculation since their invention almost 4000 years ago. The symbols represent sounds, yet they exist in their own right, often invested with quasi-magical power. This book examines the many imaginative, often idiosyncratic ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in ... see all copies from $2.97! new only from $47.98! \| first editions
6	Families of Value more books like this by Jane Drucker, Johanna Drucker add to wishlist This collection contains stories from gay and lesbian parents from all walks of life, told in their own words, about the joys and particular struggles of parenthood. It is an inspiring and uplifting celebration of diversity, as well as an important contribution to the ongoing debate over "family values" that continues to rage in this country and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Girl's Life more books like this by Johanna Drucker, Susan Bee add to wishlist A graphic melodrama of romance, crime, and passion, A Girl's Life addresses adolescent angst in all of its fashionably gory details. The snares and pitfalls of contemporary life, which all girls must struggle to survive, are here revealed through darkly comic and fiendishly noir prose, accompanied by lurid collages and unusual typography. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $15.27! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist This examination of the modernist tradition in the visual arts provides a view of the history of modern art through a psychoanalytic and postructuralist perspective. It examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than formalist criticism. see all copies from $3.91! new only from $26.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Century of Artists Books more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist The Century of Artists' Books is the first full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentieth century art-form. This work situates artists' books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts from Russian Futurism and Surrealism to Fluxus, Conceptual Art, to Postmodernism. Designed to raise critical and ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $167.37! \| first editions
10	The Century of Artists' Books more books like this by Drucker Johanna, Johanna Drucker, Holland Cotter (Introduction by) add to wishlist Johanna Drucker's "The Century of Artists' Books is "the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a 20th-century art form. By situating artists' books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, Drucker raises critical and theoretical issues as well as providing a historical overview of the medium. ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $21.77! \| SVS
11 view cover	Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. Here she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. ... see all copies from $19.47! new only from $19.47! \| SVS
12 view cover	Graphic! Design History more books like this by Johanna Drucker, Emily McVarish add to wishlist see all copies from $84.87! new only from $84.87! \| SVS
13 view cover	Neon Boneyard: Las Vegas A-Z more books like this by Judy Natal, Johanna Drucker add to wishlist The garish glow of neon was part of what put Las Vegas on the map--quite literally. The city's most distinctive form of expression, neon signs tell an elaborate story of the history of Las Vegas, from their debut in 1929 at the onset of the Depression, when their seductive tones lured travelers through the Mojave Desert to part with scarce dollars ... see all copies from $19.75! new only from $21.44! \| first editions
14 view cover	Night Crawlers on the Web by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist The slim volume can be appreciated for itself, or considered as an tangible extension of Drucker's theories about books, typography, and book art. In Night Crawlers she paints a somewhat Gothic landscape peopled with hi-tech, lo-cal humanoids who speak in a language built largely around the ubiquity of consumer computers. see all copies from $3.40! new only from $5.73!
15 view cover	The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist Conceived as a project of two disciplines, this text forms part of an exhibition and symposium which explores the thinking about the visual arts and literary writing. The project exemplifies the nature of humanities research at the Washington University through the efforts of individuals in various disciplines to shape the discussion about the ... see all copies from $52.50! first editions
16 view cover	American Art 1975-1995: From the Whitney Museum more books like this by Johanna Drucker, Whitney Museum Of American Art add to wishlist Text by Johanna Drucker. Interview with David Ross by Ida Gianelli. Representing a virtual who's-who of American art over the last two decades, this book-length catalog is an essential illustrated overview of the ever-shifting state of contemporary culture. Featuring works by such noted figures as Basquiat, Frankenthaler, Haring, Newman, Reinhardt ... see all copies from $9.31! new only from $337.63!
17	Link 8: Codex by Johanna; Lupton Drucker, Ellen; Schreiber, Rachel; Sebring, Bill add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
18 view cover	Figuring the Word more books like this by Johanna Drucker, Charles Bernstein (Text by) add to wishlist Charles Bernstein introduces this collection of critical essays by Drucker, who is known for her scholarly interest in typography and the physical properties of texts and books. The work collected here was previously published in academic and literary journals, and represents her critical inquiry spanning the early 1980s thorough 2000. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $164.20!
19 view cover	M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism more books like this by Susan Bee (Editor), Mira Schor (Editor), Johanna Drucker (Foreword by) add to wishlist "M/E/A/N/I/N/G" brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors - artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor - have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial gallery interests and media hype during its ... see all copies from $16.80! new only from $23.45!
20 view cover	The Word Made Flesh more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist see all copies from $120.00!
21 view cover	Don't Pay Any Attention to Him, He's 90% Water: The Cartooning Career of Boris Drucker more books like this by Johanna Drucker, Special Collections Research Center add to wishlist For more than a half-century, Boris Drucker has created a livelihood and a reputation as a cartoonist. His drawing style and humour has graced the pages of such diverse publications as the "Saturday Evening Post", "Playboy", "Family Circle", and "The New Yorker". Drucker's work is a record of the changing American culture, and he takes as his ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $26.91!
22 view cover	History of The/My Word: Fragments of a Testimonial to History, Some Lived and Realized Moments Open to Claims of Memory more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist The History of the/my Wor(l)d provides a striking alternative to the familiar telling of historical events. Johanna Drucker's account of mythic and major moments in the course of western civilization marches roughshod over received traditions. When before has anyone called Alexander the Great by a diminutive of his first name? Or published a ... see all copies from $58.28!
23	Dark Decade more books like this by Johanna Drucker add to wishlist see all copies from $7.90!
24 view cover	99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium more books like this by Charles Bernstein (Editor), Johanna Drucker (Contributions by), Fernando Aquiar (Contributions by) add to wishlist "9 Poets/1999" presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, culture, and temperament. With contributions from the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand and China, the volume features responses to questions posed by guest editor Charles Bernstein - ... see all copies from $13.28!
25	Otherspace: Martian Typography more books like this by Johanna Drucker, Brad Freeman add to wishlist see all copies from $71.00!

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