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Cargando... The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting (edición 2016)por Anne Trubek (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was enjoying this until I hit p.50 "The most beautiful of these hands may well be Insular, developed in Ireland by Saint Patrick, who had learned half-uncial in Europe and brought it to Ireland in the latter half of the fifth century." the small postits came out and there's a "citation please" note on it. Because, even though she annotates almost everything else this one came out of nowhere. Having studied Early Irish Script in college this is unfounded. Patrick brought Christianity and Latin to Ireland and from that came the Insular script; Irish scribes are also supposed to have introduced spaces and some of the common abbreviations. Plus, while the Book of Kells is in Insular Script and resides in Ireland, common scholarship attributes it to somewhere in Scotland. So after this I took a lot of what she said with a grain of salt. It misses the modern calligraphy revival, the proliferation of calligraphy on Pinterest, the use of pseudo calligraphy in a lot of places and the new discoveries about things like journalling by hand, like Bullet Journals and the resurgence in fountain pens. It's an interesting read but lacks a certain amount of true depth. It would be interesting to see further research on the handwriting around the world rather than just concentrated on the US experience. So as previous reviewers have said, not a bad starting place, trust but verify. Anne Trubek's "The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting" is an interesting, albeit brief (the book is only 154 pages before the acknowledgements, notes and index), look at the evolution of writing from the earliest cuneiform clay tablets of the Sumerians to today's era of digital signatures, computers, and text messaging. I enjoyed this quick read, particularly the chapters on cuneiform, medieval scribes, early typewriters, graphology, penmanship, calligraphy, and the creation of fonts. The book's brevity left me wanting a bit more on these subjects, but it nevertheless serves as a good springboard to seek out further detail on the topic. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia. In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication. Now, inThe History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg's printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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