Active Literature : Jan Tschichold and New

Jan Tschichold (1902-74) was one of the most outstanding and influential graphic artists and typographers of the twentieth century.Active Literatureis a thorough study of Tschichold as the premiere proponent of New Typography. Author Christopher Burke uses Tschichold's own books, articles, and personal correspondence to reveal Tschichold as an evangelist as much as a designer. Extensive archival research and a wealth of fresh photographs of his design work put Tschichold's own account of his career, until now the governing narrative, into context.Active Literaturealso features a selection of key texts by Tschichold and an introductory essay by Robin Kinross.

Christopher Burke is a type designer, typographer, and the author of Paul Renner: The Art of Typography.

From Johannes to Ivan	p. 15
Making history	p. 27
Elemental typography	p. 29
Berlin, Munich, and the little black book	p. 52
Forming the avant-garde	p. 82
The ring of new advertising designers	p. 98
Photography and photomontage	p. 105
Statistics in Vienna	p. 119
Eastern European connections	p. 121
The international progressed new typography	p. 128
The eye of the storm : a survey in Typoyraphische Mitteilungen, 1933	p. 131
Seizure	p. 135
Script, type and book	p. 147
Sanserif and small letters	p. 149
Typeface designs 1929-31	p. 162
Two books on writing and drawing letters	p. 178
Book design 1925-33	p. 197
Typefaces for phototypesetting 1933-6	p. 222
Exile	p. 247
British connections	p. 272
From avant-garde to rearguard	p. 286
Elemental typography (1925)	p. 311
Book'art'? (1927)	p. 312
What is new typography and what are its aims? (1930)	p. 314
Where do we stand today? (1932)	p. 317
Select bibliography of Tschichold's writings	p. 321
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