-writing information takes power away from people/ using memory
-all the information that's recorded, multiple people have info, guy has no power
-power taken away because of literacy
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Key terms from last week: Lascaux, Scribe, Sumerian, illuminated Manuscripts, Cuniform, book of keels. (manuscripts) they shed lights, they were literally illuminated
When societies progress, technology progresses.
recognizing the importance of literacy and when roman kind of went to pop, it makes Charloamine, imports a head scribe, Al Quinn of York. York develops Caroline if Minuscules.
fast forwarded to 1400, wood block print of playing card. until then entertainment was not getting raped by vikings. entertainment royalty and peasants have, have same thing. (xylography)
People's brains are wired differently, remember visual signs, strategy.
poor status people can own printed wooden stacks now.
death was popular. because plague, ars morienei, tells how to day for the afterlife, the afterlife is better then common life. propaganda, could leave money to family, or to church. the print was hand carved.
another ars morienei, hand colored
Hutanberg/ the east experimenting with printing, makes printing in text work
Factors that were in place were a growing middle class, students in expanding universities, increase literacy, monopoly on literacy being taken away from the church, theres a demand. increase literacy more people want books, books worth farm. Gutenberg bring systems together, develops owl, system for developing letter forms, comes up with ink, comes up with press system, develops types styles, ligatures (look up). he's a regular guy. just guy wanting to make money,
1438, forms a formal contract teaching secret process for making mirrors; heating mercery. 5 year another secrets contract, trial showed him printmaking. his systems stay in place.
Film: The making of a renaissance book
printmaking, had to get lead to making them and fixing each individual letter and cared about the space.
typography is used to print with independent prints,
letter of indulgence, buy off church to pay off sins. get out of jail free card. gutenberg could make these, he makes a gutenberg bible. printed 1455, prints the same text but adds designs to it. in 1450, he borrowed from 800 gilders, contract with yohan bus, idea of printing bibles, 1452, borrow another 800 gilders to establish partnership, adds extra lines to save 142 words, 1455, fuss sues gutenberg, he takes over production of bibles, goes into business with shop forman. incunabula; it mean baby carriage, reforest to the first 50 years of printing.
bible was first successful book. selling them as manuscripts, 1465, gutenberg is appointed noble men and they know he got screwed over. Nainz, Germany 1500, 35 additions of 9 million books all by hand. typography is the major communications in advance between the invention of writing and 20th century mass communication. at first people freak out. some fall, others adapt. from 1473, book about famous women,
1493, Nuremberg chronicles, a history of the world up to that point. had storyboard/ thumbnails of them working on the things that they planned out.
swevyheym and Pannartz- evolution to roman letters, to printers from italy. brings letterforms that are based on humanistic writing of scribes. during the renaissance, rediscovering classic text. 1475, first english settling book.
calendarier, a calendar. (1476)
1639, steven daye, locksmith, gets to be first printer in colonies, first thing prints is whole books of psalms messy, horrible, not crafted with love, guy trying make buck,
rococo, france 1730's printing goes crazy, fanciful, ornate, a time of inquiry, science,
1692, louie ordered scholars made royal typeface. drawn by grid, scientific principle.
rommainduroi, stayed the same until french revolution.
Fournier; he created clean, readable, decretive, printers flowers : florins. he created a manual of typography. he prints popular literature
copperplate ingrain, became popular, scratching in plate with needles, knew they could do typography like topographic books without being limited. pushed litterform design.
Personal Thoughts: Today's class was interesting like it was before. Printmakers a worked hard to create their letters making each letter form and post it with lead ink. They had to be carful not to make mistake like in terms of spacing and incorrect letters. There were also people like Gutenberg with made his own bible and made a buck out of it. He had the typography similar to what the bible had but added his own print making designs into it to make it decorative and nice. I thought the effort they gave to improve the time of typographic design was relentless and difficult. It would be something I wouldn't do and am glad they gave the effort in their printmaking so we could have things done easier for us today. The video showed a lot of their work but it was a little uninteresting. Overall, the class was very informative and it showed how freaking lucky we are.
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