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Anthony Froshaug /

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Hyphen, 2000.Description: 2 volumes (254, 270 pages) : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 090725909X
  • 9780907259091
  • 0907259138
  • 9780907259138
  • 0907259146
  • 9780907259145
  • 97890725908
  • 090725909X
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Contents:
Volume 1 : Typography & texts -- Volume 2 : Documents of a life.
Summary: These volumes retrieve the life and work of typographer Anthony Froshaug, providing abundant evidence of his contribution as a deep and charismatic thinker-practitioner. Typography & texts concerns the work of Anthony Froshaug. Main components of this volume are: a substantial introduction by the editor ; Froshaug's work as designer and printer in selected annotated reproduction ; his writings on typography ; catalogue of his work ; bibliographies ; index of names to both volumes. Documents of a life is a sequence of texts and images, with annotations by the editor. It covers the span of Froshaug's life: as a child, as a student at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, as a designer & printer in West Cornwall, as a teacher at the Central School, the Hochschule fur Gestaltung Ulm, the Royal College of Art, Watford School of Art, and elsewhere. This volume is a documentary: consisting of what was recorded and what survives, animated by the spirit of its subject. Robin Kinross, editor of this work, is the author of Modern Typography (1992), and Fellow Readers (1994). Among his other contributions is an introduction to the English- language edition (1995) of Jan Tschihold's Die Neue Typograhie.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General Z 246 FRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available Volume 2 : Documents of a life 0007231
Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General Z 246 FRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available Volume 1 : Typography & texts 0007232

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Volume 1 : Typography & texts -- Volume 2 : Documents of a life.

These volumes retrieve the life and work of typographer Anthony Froshaug, providing abundant evidence of his contribution as a deep and charismatic thinker-practitioner.

Typography & texts concerns the work of Anthony Froshaug. Main components of this volume are: a substantial introduction by the editor ; Froshaug's work as designer and printer in selected annotated reproduction ; his writings on typography ; catalogue of his work ; bibliographies ; index of names to both volumes.

Documents of a life is a sequence of texts and images, with annotations by the editor. It covers the span of Froshaug's life: as a child, as a student at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, as a designer & printer in West Cornwall, as a teacher at the Central School, the Hochschule fur Gestaltung Ulm, the Royal College of Art, Watford School of Art, and elsewhere. This volume is a documentary: consisting of what was recorded and what survives, animated by the spirit of its subject.

Robin Kinross, editor of this work, is the author of Modern Typography (1992), and Fellow Readers (1994). Among his other contributions is an introduction to the English- language edition (1995) of Jan Tschihold's Die Neue Typograhie.

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