Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. From antiquity to modern times. Archaic signs, figures, and writing
  • The Middle Ages: graphic design as cottage industry
  • Techniques and materials: paper, printing, and composition
  • The Renaissance-fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • The passage from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries
  • The Neoclassical period
  • Part 2. The long nineteenth century. Decisive changes
  • A revival in the arts graphics
  • Affirmations of modernity
  • Part 3. The first third of the twentieth century. The avant-garde floodtide
  • World War I
  • Continuation and reconstruction in the avant-garde
  • Part 4. From the rise of totalitarism to World War II
  • Totalitarism: avant-garde exile and survival
  • World War II
  • Part 5. Postwar economic boom. Characteristics and horizons
  • Creativity and trends country by country
  • Profesionalism and expansion
  • Part 6. The final decades of the twentieth century. Pre-digital graphic design: context and overview
  • Experimentation in the 1970s
  • The advent of digital design
  • Widespread freedom.