Johanna Drucker

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

Publications

Scholarly publications

• Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition, Columbia University Press, Summer 1994.
• The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, The University of Chicago Press, Spring 1994.
• The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination, London: Thames and Hudson, Spring 1995.
  • 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, Granary Books, 1998.
• 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. [1]
  • '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. (Chinese)
  • Historia del diseño gráfico, Buenos Aires: Ampersand, forthcoming. [2] (Spanish)
• SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
• Le Petit Journal des Refusées, critical edition, Rice University Press, 2009.
• 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. [3]
• Diagrammatic Writing, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2013.
• 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.

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, 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.

Links

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