THE GOLDEN THREAD: THE STORY OF WRITING
Book ID/图书代码： 00970010B42494
English Summary/英文概要： From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and animals in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century user of a desktop computer, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. An ambitious but accessible history of writing from prehistory to the modern digital era, The Golden Thread is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history. Ewan Clayton is uniquely well-placed to tell this story – a classically trained calligrapher and world authority of calligraphy and lettering, he was for many years a consultant to Xerox PARC with a special interest in digital communications technology.
The Golden Thread traces the history of an invention which has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. It explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages:
·the invention of the alphabet
·the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period
·the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy
·the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution
·the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century
·the implications of the digital switchover at the century’s close.
The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief amongst these is the fundamental question: ’What does it mean to be literate in the world of the early twenty-first century?’
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从简单的用图形记录交易的商品和动物的远古美索不达米亚时代到二十一世纪用户电脑桌面的复杂的印刷资源，文字记录的发展史就是人类文明故事的本身。从史前到现代数字时代，这是一个雄心勃勃的但有迹可循的文字记录历史，黄金线肯定能吸引语言、书记和文化历史爱好者的眼球。
尤恩•克莱顿特殊的职业告诉我们一个关于受过正规训练的古典主义书法家和世界权威认证过的书法和篆刻的故事，因为他是对数字通信有着特殊兴趣爱好并且多年来作为施乐帕洛阿尔托研究中心的顾问。
一根具有历史痕迹的黄金线已经被人类用来在各个领域来编纂和传播思想，它是文化、科学和政治进步的发动机。它在以下这几个阶段探索了社会文化的影响：
字母的发明时期
替换了古罗马时期使用的纸莎草卷轴时期
使用可移动的输入而带来的完善的印刷技术和十五世纪随之而来的文字的传播时期
工业革命期间工业化的印刷时期
受现代主义艺术影响的用文字表达的二十一世纪初期
世纪末数字转换的卷入的时期
黄金线同时也引发了一系列社会生活时代前所未有的工具和书面交流技术的改变而带来的问题。在这些问题之中，最基本的是：二十一世纪读写到底是什么意思？(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 尤恩•克莱顿是一名杰出的书法家，是桑德兰大学设计和媒体艺术学院的教授。他曾作为一名兴趣爱好者担任过帕洛阿尔托研究中心的数字通信技术的顾问。他曾在世界上许多地方展览过他的作品，教书法。Ewan Clayton is a distinguished calligrapher and professor in the faculty of Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at the University of Sunderland. For a number of years he worked as a consultant to Xerox PARC with an interest in digital communications technology. He has exhibited and taught calligraphy in many parts of the world.
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