Böcker i Schriftmedien - Kommunikations- und buchwissenschaftliche Perspektiven-serien

This collection of specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the Early Modern printer's mark, a very productive Early Modern word-image so far only occasionally noted outside the domain of book history. This collection of 17 specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the European printer¿s mark, a very productive Early Modern word-image genre so far only occasionally noted outside the domain of book history. It does so from the perspectives of book history, literary history, especially emblem scholarship, and art history. The various contributions to the volume address issues such as those of the adoption of printer's devices in the place of the older heraldic printer's marks as a symptom of the changing self-image of the representatives of the Early Modern printing profession, of the mutual influence of emblems and printer's marks, of the place of Classical learning in the design of Humanist printer's marks, of the economic factors involved in the evolution of Early Modern printer's marks, the pictorial topics of the Early Modern printer's mark, and the printer's mark as a result of the 'Verbürgerlichung' of the device of Early Modern nobility. Special care was taken to account for the similarities and differences of the printer's marks produced and used in different regional and cultural contexts. The printer¿s mark thus becomes visible as a European phenomenon that invites studying some of the most significant shared aspects of Early Modern culture. Preface/ Beginnings and Provenances: A. Wolkenhauer: Sisters, or Mother and Daughter? The Relationship between Printer¿s Marks and Emblems during the First Hundred Years/ A. Bässler: Ekphrasis and Printer¿s Signets/ L. Houwen: Beastly Devices: Early Printers¿ Marks and Their Medieval Origins/ H. Meeus: From Nameplate to Emblem. The Evolution of the Printer¿s Device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600/ Regions and Places: K. Sp. Staikos: Heraldic and Symbolic Printer¿s Devices of Greek Printers in Italy (15th-16th century)/ A. Jakimyszyn-Gadocha: Jewish Printers¿ Marks from Poland (16th-17th centuries)/ J. A. Tomicka: Fama typographica. In Search of the Emblem Form of Printer¿s Devices. The Iconography and Emblem Form of Printer¿s Devices in 16th- and 17th-Century Poland/ P. Hoftijzer: Pallas Nostra Salus. Early-Modern Printer¿s Marks in Leiden as Expressions of Professional and Personal Identity/ D. Peil: Early Modern Munich Printer¿s Marks (and Related Issues)/ K. Lundblad: The Printer¿s Mark in Early Modern Sweden/ S. Hufnagel: Iceland¿s Lack of Printer¿s Devices: Filling a Functional and Spatial Void in Printed Books during the Sixteenth Century/ Concepts, Historical and Systematic: B.F. Scholz: The Truth of Printer¿s Marks: Andrea Alciato On ¿Aldo¿s Anchor¿, ¿Froben¿s Dove¿ and ¿Calvo¿s Elephant¿. A Closer Look at Alciato¿s Concept of the Printer¿s Mark./ V. Hayaert: The Legal Significance and Humanist Ethos of Printers¿ Insignia/ J. Kiliäczyk-Zi¿ba: The Transition of the Printer¿s Device from a Sign of Identification to a Symbol of Aspirations and Beliefs/ Judit Vizkelety-Ecsedy: Mottos in Printers¿ Devices ¿ Thoughts about the Hungarian Usage/ M. Simon: European Printers¿ and Publishers¿ Marks in the 18th Century. The Three C¿s: Conformity, Continuity and Change/ B.F. Scholz: In Place of an Afterword: Notes on Ordering the Corpus of the Early Modern Printer¿s Mark/ Research Bibliography: The Early Modern Printer¿s Mark in its Cultural Contexts/ Index (Names, Places, Motti).

Hermann Zapf (1918-2015) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Schriftgestalter, Kalligraphen und Typographen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk uberspannt mehr als sieben Jahrzehnte, in denen er Schriftklassiker wie Palatino, Optima und Zapfino vorgelegt hat. Daneben war Zapf als Buchgestalter, Berater, Dozent, Unternehmer, Kunstler und Aktivist in Urheberrechtsfragen tatig. Die vorliegende Studie nahert sich diesem Werk auf Basis des umfassenden, an der der Herzog August Bibliothek verwahrten Eigenarchivs des Gestalters. Untersuchungsleitend ist ein feldtheoretisches Konzept von Gestaltung, das Fragen zu Entwurfstechniken und dem Einfluss von Satztechnologien aufwirft, aber auch nach der Entstehung von Zapfs Ansehen und dem Aufbau seines Beziehungsnetzwerks. Durch die Verortung Zapfs im Kontext seiner Zeitgenossen wird mit dieser Werkbiografie ein Schlaglicht auf die Typographie der 2. Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts geworfen.

In recent years the field of book studies has been reconceptualized, moving away from a primarily historical and narrative focus. This change, triggered in part by new media, has involved an expansion in the range of research questions considered as well as their theoretical underpinnings. Analysis of the forms of communication used in written media form an essential aspect of this new approach. Conceptually, the series is based on an understanding of written media found in interdisciplinary perspectives as well as communication and media studies. Accordingly, the volumes published in the series will not focus solely on media such as books, newspapers, and journals, but also address the broader dimensions of communication in written media overall. This proven approach in research and teaching is integrative and thus has many points of intersection to neighboring disciplines. The series publishes works that explore the problem-solving potential of book studies when it avails itself of interdisciplinary perspectives to assess written communication in the past and present.