26 October 2022
The great history of writing
From cuneiform writing to emoji. Since its appearance, written expression has changed several times and continues to evolve. Skilfully taking advantage of the potentialities offered by the graphic ...
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The great history of writing
From cuneiform writing to emoji. Since its appearance, written expression has changed several times and continues to evolve. Skilfully taking advantage of the potentialities offered by the graphic novel genre, La grande storia della scrittura by Vitali Konstantinov traces the development of over 100 writing systems from their origins to the digital era – and make no mistakes, the book ranges from hieroglyphs to the Greek alphabet and fictional languages such as Klingon.
And more. The author's words and illustrations also follow the evolution of writing on various media: carvings on stones, bones or shells, marks on the sand and engravings on birch bark. Going back to the dawn of time, when people used simple, complex or interconnected characters to communicate with each other, the book retraces a mode of expression that changed through time and, with digital communication, is going back to simpler and more direct forms, not too far from its origins, actually.
La grande storia della scrittura (The great history of writing)
by Vitali Konstantinov
L’Ippocampo Edizioni, 2022