Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2020.1721164
Kyle Rath
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, numerous prominent authors in various spheres of design discourse have discussed the rhetorical potency of type “icons” and how they come to embody cultural connotation. As icons, typefaces offer a universal language system—an expansive visual vocabulary that immediately references what we already know of their context. Iconic typefaces and their letterforms are subject to a process of narrative interpretation where what we “already know of them” is in a constant process of resignification. Here, critics tend to follow a Barthesian view that, as mythic structures, letterforms’ narratives are continuously used and reused as signification in different contexts. This widely regarded view presumes that iconic meaning develops as a chain of signification, where one narrative builds onto the next. This, however, leaves little explanation for instances where symbolism embedded in iconic typefaces develops in unexpected ways. In this article, I therefore investigate and unpack other means by which iconic typefaces evolve rhetorical meaning. By referring to examples throughout, I explore typical perspectives on iconic type in the Barthesian sense, but also trace different processes of signification. In doing so, I aim to offer alternative insights into ideological type as a more fluid rhetorical entity.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-18DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2019.1653538
C. Becker
Despite public outrage from some quarters, claiming that the city’s history was being erased, in 2015 the (white) Mayor of New Orleans, with the support of the black-majority City Council, voted to...
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2019.1623471
Katherine Arbuckle, P. Nqelenga
In a collaborative project at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), students from the Visual Arts and the Drama and Performance Studies programmes explored institutional space through site-respon...
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Pub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2019.1611194
Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto
This article draws attention to two spray-painting actions that occurred simultaneously in the city of Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2016, when two large-scale public artworks with a common theme were targ...
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Pub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2019.1611193
Rachel Hatcher
This article examines two memorial projects in El Salvador, the Monument to Memory and Truth, unveiled in 2003, and the Reconciliation Sculpture Park, inaugurated in 2017. The first is a civil soci...
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Pub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2019.1621509
J. Wintjes
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Pub Date : 2019-07-19DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2019.1611192
C. De Lorenzo
ABSTRACTThis article examines two projects by Jonathan Jones, an Australian artist of Wiradjuri/ Kamilaroi descent. The first addresses a series of works that honour William Barak, an artist and fr...
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