Johanna Drucker
Autor de The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination
Sobre El Autor
Johanna Drucker is the Distinguished Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The General Theory of Social Relativity and Diagrammatic Writing.
Obras de Johanna Drucker
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum/Arte Americana 1975-1995 Dal Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity/Identita… (1997) 3 copias
Damaged Spring 2 copias
The JAB Anthology: Selections from the Journal of Artists' Books, 1994-2020 (Impressions) (2023) 1 copia
Thinking about Ten Years of JAB 1 copia
The Fall 1 copia
The Current Line 1 copia
Quantum 1 copia
Prove before laying 1 copia
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Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K", #2, August 1984 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Number 12, (Vol. 3, No. 2) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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- Drucker, Johanna
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- Drucker, Johanna Ruth
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- 1952-05-30
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley (MA|1982 - Visual Studies, PhD|1986)
California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA|1972 - Printing) - Ocupaciones
- professor (Art History)
professor (Media Studies)
professor (Education and Information Studies) - Organizaciones
- University of Texas at Dallas
Harvard University
Columbia University
Yale University
Purchase College
University of Virginia (Media Studies) (mostrar todos 7)
University of California, Los Angeles (Education and Information Studies) - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
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As Drucker writes, the idea that the Greeks invented the alphabet is deeply ingrained in modern thought. But this is the opposite of what the Greeks themselves thought; they were clear that it was borrowed. From the Greek perspective, the alphabet was invented either by the Phoenicians and given to the Greeks by Cadmus (this is the account given to us by Herodotus) or invented by the Egyptian god Thoth (as in the account of Plato). Other Greek descriptions tend to riff on either or both of these basic narratives. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries scholarship lauded the ‘genius’ of the Greeks for adding vowels to the existing consonantal alphabet used by the Phoenicians. Only recently has it begun to describe the birth of the Greek alphabet as a process of cultural contact, borrowing and collaboration.
Inventing the Alphabet raises all of the questions that have vexed historians. The Bible presents insoluble problems. If God wrote the Ten Commandments for Moses, what language were they in? What alphabet? If it was the first ever written text, how did Moses know how to read it? These questions led early modern thinkers to develop an intense interest in Hebrew and other Semitic languages. But Drucker also shows how incomplete each generation’s information was. Knowledge of inscriptions and coins was very limited in the early modern period, which meant that the Hebrew alphabet known in Europe was the elegant ‘square’ script rather than the Palaeo-Hebrew script used in the earliest part of antiquity. This was, therefore, how they imagined Hebrew to have been written in the distant past as well.
Read the rest of the review at HistoryToday.com.
Katherine McDonald is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Durham.… (más)