Typemotion: Type as Image in Motion (German/English)

Ed. Bernd Scheffer, Christine Stenzer, Peter Weibel, Soenke Zehle, text(s) by Bernd Scheffer, Marcel Schellong, Christine Stenzer, Peter Weibel, Soenke Zehle u.a., Friedrich W. Block, Klaus Peter Dencker, Michael Lentz, Dominika Szope, graphic design by Andreas Platzgummer

ISBN 10: 3775737839 / ISBN 13: 9783775737838

Published by Hatje Cantz, 2015

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Z : 464 pp., 914 ills. hardcover 19.10 x 25.30 cm - No other genre sets words in motion the way that film does: whether it is an art film, a dramatic film, advertising, or a music video, the scripted film has been established since the pioneering days of film in the late nineteenth century, and has expanded to other areas since then. In a certain way, lead type from the early days of printing has found its way onto 21st-century screens. With analogue and digital work methods, words in motion have continued to become even more multifaceted. They are no longer simply used to convey information, but have gained an autonomous, aesthetic status of their own. This volume deals with the artistic word-film, in particular, and presents examples of analogue and digital films in which animated and designed words, sometimes set to music, are turned into a major character, going far beyond what is conventionally expected of words and words in film.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1634050020017

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Typemotion: Type as Image in Motion (German/English)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775737839
• ISBN 13: 9783775737838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Design
  • Film
  • Typographie

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Synopsis

Typemotion looks at a variety of artistic productions in which type is animated--from feature films and advertising to artworks and music videos--with examples from 20 countries dating from 1895 to the present. Tracing the transition from analogue to digital treatments of type, it provides insights into larger cultural and media developments, while also speculating on the future of animated type, particularly in the realm of interactive media. Among the extraordinary range of cross-disciplinary contributors to this volume are John Baldessari, Saul Bass, Stan Brakhage, Marcel Broodthaers, Dellbrügge & de Moll, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein, Expanded Gramophone Project, Hollis Frampton, Terry Gilliam, Jenny Holzer, Isidore Isou, Eduardo Kac, Ferdinand Kriwet, Fritz Lang, Maurice Lemaître, Len Lye, David Lynch, Gaspar Noé, Tony Oursler, Phenomena, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Paul Sharits, Super Swap Sweden, Timm Ulrichs, Stan Vanderbeek, Johannes Vogt, Paul Wegener and Peter Weibel.