Perpustakaan Digital ITB

As the visual inscription of language and the imprint of thought, typography conceals the stakes that are overlooked by the whole question of design. Roland Barthes’s epigraph well expresses that state of existing in a singular world, warily loaded with meta-meanings. That knowledge of the fundamental nature of the letter and the forces at work in it permit a view of typography in the work of artists from the first decades of the twentieth century as something other than a radical aesthetic phenomenon exciting fascination or repulsion. Doubtless, one must first of all consider the frenzied pursuit to express the Zeitgeist, and appreciate the interactions of an artistic scene that was quite out of the ordinary.