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The New Typography in Scandinavia: Modernist Design and Print Culture: Cultural Histories of Design

Autor Trond Klevgaard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2020
This is the first monograph on Scandinavia's 'New Typography'. It provides a detailed account of the movement's lifespan in the region from the 1920s up until the 1940s, when it was largely incorporated into mainstream practice.The book begins by tracing how the New Typography, from its origins in the central and eastern European avant-garde, arrived in Scandinavia. It considers the movement's transformative impact on printing, detailing the cultural and technological reasons why its ability to act as a modernising force varied between different professional groups. The last two chapters look at how New Typography related to Scandinavian society more widely by looking at its ties to functionalism and social democracy, paving the way for a discussion of the reciprocal relationship between the culture of practitioners and the cultural work performed through their practice.Based on archival research undertaken at a number of Scandinavian institutions, the book brings a wealth of previously unpublished visual material to light and provides a fresh perspective on a movement of central and enduring importance to graphic design history and practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350112391
ISBN-10: 1350112399
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 106 bw illus, 8pp colour plate with 16 colour images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Cultural Histories of Design

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Touches on the currently much discussed topics of social democracy and functionalism in the twentieth century

Notă biografică

Trond Klevgaard is Associate Professor of Design History and head of the degree program in Graphic Design at Kristiania University College, Norway.

Cuprins

ContentsList of FiguresList of PlatesAcknowledgementsNote on TranslationIntroduction1. Origins and NetworksOrigins of the New TypographyScandinavian Nodes in the Avant-Garde NetworkSection One: Printing and Advertising Cultures2. Modification: The Printing Trade's Versions of the New TypographyThe New Typography from Avant-Garde Printing to TradeThe New Typography in Scandinavian Printing Education3. Compartmentalization: Cultures and Practices of AdvertisingJobbing Print, Commercial Art and Lay-OutDiscreet Professional Communication NetworksCompeting Cultures of Design and ProductionSection Two: Printing and Society4. Realignment: Functionalism as Ideology, Style and ResistanceFrom Elementarism to FunctionalismFrom Funkis to Functional TypographyTowards the Functional Book5. Isolation: Future-People and Rational ConsumersThe Swedish Cooperative Society: Adopter of 'Wild' New TypographyPrint Designs of the Avant-Garde LeftTargeting the Young and Femaile Vote through 'Wild' Photomontage6. AssimilationThe New Typography Under OccupationA New Style in Neutral SwedenConclusionGlossary

Recenzii

The history of modernism in typography is too often told through a limited number of familiar pieces of work, with the emphasis on a small cast of central and eastern European characters. Through thorough research into contemporary accounts, and by not concentrating solely on the avant-garde, Trond Klevgaard opens our eyes to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish designers whose work in the mid-20th century was international in inspiration but decidedly Scandinavian in application. This book brings a much-needed northern European perspective to the history of the 'new typography'.
Klevgaard explains the publishing environment in which New Typography took shape in Scandinavia. We come to understand the "domestication" of modernist typography not as a misunderstanding of its more well-known Central European prototypes, but rather as a sensible adaptation to the varying interests of publishers, tradespeople, readers, and organizations there. Well researched and clearly written, this study will open many eyes to typography rarely seen outside of the region. It also demonstrates how the histories of social organizations and of industrial structures, no less than the histories of ideas and of visual forms, are key to understanding the history of modernist design.