Tipografía árabe. La escritura como dibujo, la palabra como imagen

[EN] Unlike Western writing, in Arabic calligraphy the im-age of the written word has priority over the drawing of the individual letter, hence its evocative power is in the force of the calligraphic image that issues from the ensemble, reinforced by including ornamental images. It is a quality with...

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Autor: Balius, Andreu
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:español
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/76772
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/76772
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Typography
Writing
Image
Drawing
Signs
Design
Arabic calligraphy
Caligrafía árabe
Tipografía
Escritura
Imagen
Dibujo
Signos
Diseño
Descripción
Sumario:[EN] Unlike Western writing, in Arabic calligraphy the im-age of the written word has priority over the drawing of the individual letter, hence its evocative power is in the force of the calligraphic image that issues from the ensemble, reinforced by including ornamental images. It is a quality with which many contemporary design-ers have been able to approach modernity. On the other hand, the peculiarities of Arabic writing, besides con-textual causes such as religious ones, have made it dif-ficult to translate into typographic characters without succumbing to a “latinising” of its forms. For that rea-son the current renaissance in design of Arabic fonts must be approached from the understanding of the cal-ligraphic origins and their cultural transcendence