One text art enthusiast points out some examples that appeared in Popular Science magazine between 19, “created by the artists on classic mechanical typewriter machines.” That’s several decades before the ASCII standard had even been defined.īut it seems indisputable that text art took on a whole new significance with the arrival of the first computers, since it offered a tempting new way of conveying information visually. Its preface claims to have identified “119 works by 65 practitioners from 18 countries.” (A PDF of the book is available online.)Īnd there’s also some other early examples. This image is from a now out-of-print work called “ Typewriter Art” (1975) by Alan Riddell, which tried to capture the earliest evolution of the artform from the 1890s through the 1970s. The book also cites the use of typewritten characters in the Bauhaus school of art during the 1920s “as a way of exploring composition and the three-dimensional space of the page.” “Victorian female stenographers pioneered a unique art form” notes a 2014 essay at, calling the book as “a beautiful allegory for how all technology is eventually co-opted as an unforeseen canvas for art and political statement.” Into the 20th Century Stacey - was included in the 2014 book “ Typewriter Art, A Modern Anthology,” which notes that the text artists of the 19th century had a different technique available to them: “feeding the paper into the rollers at numerous times, each at a different angle to allow the overprinting and fine-tuning of the image.” Last month someone calling themselves “Sourcerer Bot” attempted to trace the history of what we refer to today as text art, and actually dig up this spectacular example from 1898. George Herbert’s “Easter Wings” from 1633
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