美国的笔迹:文化史 Handwriting in America : A Cultural History

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 264 pages, 57 b-w illus.

Publisher:Yale University Press

Imprint:Yale University Press

ISBN:9780300074413

Published:25 May 1998

Weight:406g

Dimensions:153 x 229 x 22 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

复印本和帕尔默方法、笔迹分析和签名收集--这些词让人联想到一个失落的世界，在这个世界里，人们将笔迹视为遵从的教训和个性的护身符。在这本引人入胜的历史中，从殖民时代到现在，塔玛拉-普拉金斯-桑顿探讨了美国笔迹的功能和意义的变化。

桑顿说，与印刷品的无个性相比，文字在18世纪作为一种与自我密切相关的媒介出现了。但此后，在不断变化的经济和社会现实、对男人和女人的定义以及身心概念的背景下，人们对什么样的自我将在文字中得到定义或揭示展开了辩论。桑顿详细介绍了这些争论的各方：使用笔法训练来形成和约束性格的书写大师；将文字的变化归结为单纯的生理特异性的科学专家；以及将打破抄本规则的签名作为个性标志、揭示自我独特性的签名收藏家和笔迹分析家们。桑顿总结说，在我们这个时代，当笔迹技能似乎完全过时的时候，书法的复兴和对老式笔法训练的呼吁反映了怀旧和对现代性的拒绝。

Copybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting―these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.

Script emerged in the eighteenth century as a medium intimately associated with the self, says Thornton, in contrast to the impersonality of print. But thereafter, just what kind of self would be defined or revealed in script was debated in the context of changing economic and social realities, definitions of manhood and womanhood, and concepts of mind and body. Thornton details the parties to these disputes: writing masters who used penmanship training to form and discipline character; scientific experts who chalked up variations in script to mere physiological idiosyncrasy; and autograph collectors and handwriting analysts who celebrated signatures that broke copybook rules as marks of personality, revealing the uniqueness of the self. In our time, concludes Thornton, when handwriting skills seem altogether obsolete, calligraphy revivals and calls for old-fashioned penmanship training reflect nostalgia and the rejection of modernity.

作者简介

塔玛拉-普拉金斯-桑顿是纽约州立大学水牛城分校的历史教授。

Tamara Plakins Thornton is professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo.