TY - SER
AU - Armando Petrucci
CY - Chicago, IL
LA - English
N1 - Traces public writing in the West from the 11th century to the 20th with Rome, Italy as a case study.

Contents:
Writing and the City
Imitation, Emulation, Cipher
Search for a Standard and the Negation of Writing
Urban Epigraphy in the Monumental City
Paper, Copper, Bronze, and Marble
Mourning, Dissimulation, Celebration
Ephemeral Monumental and Paper Monumental
The Return to Order
Deviant Phenomena
The Breaking of the Norm
The New Order and the Signs of the Regime
The Red Sign
The Signs of No
Writing Against
Bibliography Essay
PB - University of Chicago Press
PP - Chicago, IL
PY - 1993
SN - 9780226663869
EP - 152 pp.
TI - Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture
ER -