Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker (1952) is an author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic.

Publications

Scholarly publications

• The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, University of Chicago Press, Spring 1994. Chapter 2: "Visual and Literary Materiality in Modern Art".

• Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition, Columbia University Press, Summer 1994.

• The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination, London: Thames and Hudson, Spring 1995, 315 pp.
  • Il labirinto alfabetico: le lettere nella storia e nel pensiero, Milan: Bonnard, 2000, 318 pp. (Italian)
  • Alfabetski lavirint: slova u istoriji i imaginaciji, trans. Branislav Kovačević, Novi Sad: Stylos, 2006, 320 pp. (Serbian)

• The Century of Artists' Books, New York: Granary Books, 1995, xii+377 pp; 2nd ed., intro. Holland Cotter, New York: Granary Books, 2004.

• Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics, New York: Granary Books, 1998. Excerpt.

• Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, University of Chicago Press, 2005.

• with Emily McVarish, Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008, 386 pp; 2nd ed., rev., Boston: Pearson, 2012, xxix+386 pp. Publisher.
  • Ping mian she ji shi: Yi bu pi pan xing de yao lan [平面设计史: 一部批判性的要览], Nanning: Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing, 2017, 386 pp. (Chinese)
  • Una historia del diseño gráfico. De la prehistoria hasta el siglo XXI, Buenos Aires: Ampersand, 2020, 450 pp. Publisher. (Spanish)

• SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing, University of Chicago Press, 2008.

• Le Petit Journal des Refusées, critical edition, Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 2009, PDF.

• with Anne Burdick, Todd Presner, Peter Lunenfeld, and Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanities, MIT Press, 2012.

• Druckworks 1972-2012: 40 Years of Books and Projects, Chicago: Epicenter Press/Columbia College, 2012, 140 pp. Exhibition catalogue for retrospective. [1]

• What Is? (A Letter, Writing, A document, Graphic about Graphic Textuality, etc.), Cuneiform Press, January 2013.

• Graphesis: The Visual Production of Knowledge in a Digital Era, Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Introduction to Digital Humanities: Concepts, Methods, and Tutorials for Students and Instructors, Los Angeles: UCLA, 2014. Textbook.

• The General Theory of Social Relativity, Vancouver: The Elephants, Apr 2018, viii+93 pp. Publisher. Review: Portela (EBR).

• Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display, MIT Press, Nov 2020, 208 pp. Publisher.
  • Visualisation: l'interprétation modélisante, trans. Marie-Mathilde Bortolotti, Paris: B42, Jun 2020, 200 pp. Publisher. (French)

• Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Dec 2020, 312 pp. Publisher.

editor

• with K. David Jackson and Eric Vos, Experimental-Visual-Concrete. Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, 448 pp. Includes "Experimental, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: A Note on Historical Context and Basic Concepts", pp 39-61. TOC.

• Art Journal: "Digital Reflections: The Dialogue of Art and Technology", Fall 1997.

• The Journal of Artists' Books 12: "Experimental Narrative and Artists' Books", Fall 1999, 32 pp, JPGs. Exhibition catalogue.

Artist's books

• Dark, The Bat Elf Banquets the Pupae, 1972.
• As No Storm or the Any Port Party, 1975.
• Twenty-six '76, 1976.
• Fragile, 1977.
• From A to Z, 1977.
• The Surprise Party Or, 1977.
• Experience of the Medium, 1978.
• Netherland: (How) So Far, 1978.
• Kidz, 1979.
• Dolls of the Spirit, 1980.
• Italy, 1980.
• Jane Goes Out w' the Scouts, 1980.
• 'S crap 'S ample, 1980.
• It Happens Pretty Fast, 1982.
• Tongues: a parent language, 1982.
• Against Fiction: Organized Affinities, 1983.
• Just As, 1983.
• Spectacle, 1984.
• Through Light and the Alphabet, 1986.
• Bookscape, 1988.
• Sample Dialog, 1989.
• The Word Made Flesh, 1989.
• History of the/my Wor(l)d, 1990.
• Simulant Portrait, 1990.
• OTHERSPACE: Martian Ty(o)pography, 1992.
• Deterring Discourse, 1993.
• Narratology, 1994.
• Three Early Fictions, 1994.
• Dark Decade, 1995.
• The Current Line, 1996.
• Prove Before Laying, 1997.
• Nightcrawlers on the Web, 2000.
• Nova Reperta, 2000.
• Emerging Sentience, 2001.
• Quantum, 2001.
• A Girl's Life, with Susan Bee, 2002.
• Damaged Spring: Pink Noire, 2003.
• Cuba, 2005, with Brad Freeman.
• Damaged Nature / Salvage Culture, 2005.
• Events: Particle Zoo, 2005.
• From Now, 2005.
• Graphical Investigations, 2005.
• Subjective Meteorology, 2005.
• Testament of Women, 2006.
• Stochastic Poetics, 2012.
• Diagrammatic Writing, 2013.
• Fabulas Feminae, with Susan Bee, 2015.
• Downdrift, 2018.
• The Fall, with Brad Freeman, 2018.
• Off-world Fairy Tales, with Susan Bee, 2020.

Links

• Personal website
• The Work of Johanna Drucker
• Artists' Books Online, an online repository of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism; dir. Johanna Drucker.
• Profile on UCLA
• CV, 2018
• Wikipedia