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Documents
• «Bill/Tschichold dispute», in Typography
Paper n°4, 2000 (Langue anglaise)
• Wyndham Lewis, «Bless and Blast,
manifeste 1» (1914), in l’Ennemi 1988,
éd. Bourgois
• «Qu’est-ce que la sculpture moderne?»,
éd. du centre Pompidou, 1986.
Différents manifestes et textes historiques
sont disponibles dans cet ouvrage, dont des
extraits du procès qui opposa Brancusi et
Duchamp à l’administration américaine,
cités par Thierry de Duve dans «Réponse
à coté de la question «qu’est-ce que la
sculpture moderne?».
Essais historiques
• William Morris, «L’age de l’erzatz»
(1894), éd. de l’encyclopédie des
nuisances, 1996
• Jan Tschichold, «Livre & typographie»
(1925- ), éd. Allia, 2005
• Le Corbusier, « Vers une architecture»
(1923), éd. Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1966
• Edward Barnays «Propaganda» (1928),
Zone, éd. de la Découverte, 2007
• Eric Gill, «An Essay on Typography»,
(1931), fac-simile, Londres, éd. ??
(Langue anglaise)
• Otto Neurath, «International picture
language» (1936), fac-simile, Reading, 1980
(Langue anglaise)
• Walter Benjamin, «L’œuvre d’art à
l’époque de sa reproductibilité technique»
(1936), éd. Allia, 2007
• Karel Teige, «Le marché de l’art» (1936),
éd. Allia, 2005
Essais contemporains
• Benjamin Buchloh, Faktura et
Factographie, In «Essais historiques I»,
Art édition, 1992
• Rosalind Krauss, Grilles (1978),
in Communication & Langages n°?, 1981?
• Beatriz Colomina, «La Publicité du privé :
de Loos à Le Corbusier», chapitre Fenêtres,
HYX, Orléans, 1998
• Antoine Compagnon, «Les cinq paradoxes
de la modernité», éd. du Seuil, 1990
• Olivier Lugon «Le style documentaire»,
chapitre II, la Clarté, éd. Macula, 2001
• Jacques Rancière, Les ambivalences
du graphisme, in «Design… graphique?»,
éd. Erba Valence 2002
Essais visuels
• Emil Ruder, «Typographie, un manuel
de création» (1967), éd. Niggli, 2001
• Joseph Müller-Brockmann, «Histoire
de la communication visuelle», ??
• Ellen Lupton & J. Abbot Miller (editors),
«ABC of the Bahaus and design theory»,
Princeton Architectural Press, 1991
(Langue anglaise)
• Steven Heller, «Merz to Emigre and
Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design
of the Twentieth Century», éd. Phaïdon,
date* (Langue anglaise)
Anthologie de textes
• Looking Closer n°3 «Classic Writing on
Graphic Design», edited by M. Beirut, J.
Helfand, S. Heller, R. Poynor, AllWorth
Press publishing, 1999. (Langue anglaise)
1893
The Ideal Book
William Morris
1913
Destruction of Syntax—
Imagination without
Strings-Words-in-Freedom
F. T. Marinetti
1921
Program of the First
Working Group of
Constructivists
Alexander Rodchenko and
Varvara Stepanova
1922
New Kind of Printing Calls
for New Design
W. A. Dwiggins
1923
With Twenty-Five Soldiers
of Lead I Have Conquered
the World
Francis Meynell
1923
The New Typography
László Moholy-Nagy
1923
Topography of Typography
El Lissitzky
1926
Typophoto
László Moholy-Nagy
1926
Our Book
El Lissitzky
1927
What Is New Typography?
Walter Dexel
1927
I Am Type
Frederic W. Goudy
1928
[Untitled]
Aldous Huxley
1929
The Philosophy of
Modernism in Typography
Douglas C. McMurtrie
1929
Outline of the Art of
Advertising Manifesto
Fortunato Depero
1930
New Life in Print
Jan Tschichold
1930
What Pleases the Modern
Man
Alexey Brodovitch
1930
What Makes a Magazine
«Modern»?
M. F. Agha
1932
The Crystal Goblet or
Printing Should Be
Invisible
Beatrice Warde
1935
Towards a Universal Type
Herbert Bayer
1936
Advertising Art in the
United States
Earnest Elmo Calkins
1938
Visual Expression
Ashley Havinden
1940
Harsh Words
T. M. Cleland
1941
A Technique for Dealing
with Artists
W. A. Dwiggins
1946
Art in Industry
Walter P. Paepcke
1949
Integration, The New
Discipline in Design
Will Burtin
1949
Function in Modern Design
György Kepes
1954
What Is a Designer?
Alvin Lustig
1956
The Designer and the
Client (edited)
Misha Black
1958
Tradition: Cliché, Prison
or Basis of Growth?
Herbert Spencer
1959
Type Is to Read
William Golden
1959
What Is New in American
Typography?
Herb Lubalin
1959
The New Typography’s
Expanding Future
Ladislav Sutnar
1959
Visual Environment
of Advertising
William Golden
1959
The Typography of Order
Emil Ruder
1960
Advertisement: Ad Vivum
or Ad Hominem?
Paul and Ann Rand
1963
Concrete Poetry
Dom Sylvester Houédard
1964
Sometimes I Play Things
I Never Heard Myself
William Bernbach
1964
First Things First
Ken Garland et al.
1964
The Responsibilities
of the Design Profession
Herbert Spencer
1965
Education for Visual
Design
Gui Bonsiepe
1965
Visual/Verbal Rhetoric
Gui Bonsiepe
1966
Decline of the Visual
Marshall McLuhan
1967
Typography Is a Grid
Anthony Froshaug
1967
Trademark Design
Jay Doblin
1967
Here Are Some Things
We Must Do
Ken Garland
1967
Visual Pop
George Melly
1970
Posters: Advertisement,
Art, Political Artifact,
Commodity
Susan Sontag
1972
How Can One Make Swiss
Typography?
Wolfgang Weingart
1973
Some Aspects of Design
from the Perspective of
a Woman Designer
Sheila Levrant de
Bretteville
1975
Good Design Is Good
Business
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
1975
Edugraphology—The
Myths of Design and the
Design of Myths
Victor Papanek
1976
This Typeface Is Changing
Your Life
Leslie Savan
1977
Lay In-Lay Out
Piet Schreuders
1983
The Age of Plunder
Jon Savage
1983
[Untitled]
Massimo Vignelli
Moderne
Samuel Vermeil — Erba Valence, DG4