Arabic type-making in the machine age: the influence of technology on the form of Arabic type, 1908–1993
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
: B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Output identifier
- 87151
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Brill Academic Publishers
- ISBN
- 9789004303775
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This illustrated 510 pp monograph represents a comprehensive body of research that combines archival research with oral history to consider the evolution of Arabic type under the influence of rapidly changing technologies. It tracks the often detrimental impact of inadequate machinery and unsuitable concepts on the representation of the Arabic script in typography. This volume is founded in archival research using previously undocumented original sources. It draws, for example, on correspondence of key stakeholders of twentieth-century type manufacturers and juxtaposes them with accounts by individuals who had been active in the trade.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This monograph is the first comprehensive study of Arabic type-making practices in the ‘Machine Age’, a period that was identified as having central importance for the evolution of the trade. In this volume Nemeth charts the evolution of the printed form of Arabic, and its development from metal to pixels. It discusses the evolution of Arabic type under the influence of rapidly changing technologies and tracks the often detrimental impact of inadequate machinery and unsuitable concepts on the representation of the Arabic script in typography. This volume is founded in archival research using previously undocumented original sources. It draws, for example, on correspondence of key stakeholders of twentieth-century type manufacturers, and juxtaposes them with accounts by individuals who had been active in the trade. This combination of archival research with oral history has been found to be particularly suitable and insightful for the subject. The used methods contributed to advancing the field beyond this study through the identification, sighting, analysis, and discussion of material in significant archives, as well as the creation of new historical records in the form of recorded interviews. This volume is likely to become a reference work for typographic history, the history of print, media studies, design history, as well as Middle Eastern studies. In January 2020 Worldcat lists 496 research libraries from around the world that provide access to Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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