Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	1993
Author	Author: Armando Petrucci
Language	English
Number of Pages	152 pp.
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
City	Chicago, IL
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Region	Europe
Chronological Period	11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9780226663869
Annotation	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