Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen: Piktogramme, Lebenszeichen, Emojis/The Society of Signs: Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis

Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen: Piktogramme, Lebenszeichen, Emojis/The Society of Signs: Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis

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Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen: Piktogramme, Lebenszeichen, Emojis/The Society of Signs: Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis

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Exhibition Catalog

Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Duren, 2020. Published, 2021. Organized in association with Museum fur Neue Kunst, Freiburg.

272 pp. 130 col., 74 b/w ills. 32 x 24 cm. Bilingual in English and German. Paperbound.

ISBN 9783753300450

The “Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis: The Society of Signs” catalog explores the questions: What objectives, and hopes are linked to the development of the modern language of images, including emojis? To which issues of their time are they each reacting to? Do they expand our possibilities of expression or do they limit them by defining stereotypes? The focus of this catalogue is on lexicons and systems of pictorial signs devised by designers and artists like Gerd Arntz, Marie and Otto Neurath, Otl Aicher, Yukio Ota & and others. How functional or engaging do the designers consider their pictorial signs to be? Are they interested in universal forms of communication or personal spaces of retreat, rapid transmission of information or complex or poetic forms of language, abstraction or individualization.

Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Germany -- 1900-1945 ; Post-1945 -- Graphic Design -- Decorative Arts and Design --

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