Blackletter:
Type and National Identity In the introduction
to Blackletter, the editors Peter Bain and Paul Shaw outline
the social and political history of
blackletter typefaces.Attempts to resolve the opposition
between blackletter and roman at the
turn of the 20th century is theprincipalsubject of
Christopher Burke's essay,German
Hybrid Typefaces,
1900-1914
.Philipp Th. Bertheau's essay stresses the
schism between Protestantism and Catholicism played in the opposition
between blackletter and roman. Philip Luidl's visual essay outlines structural
differences among the four varieties of blackletter type. Hans Peter Willberg's
essay Fraktur and Nationalism describes how the Naxi's debased the heritage
of blackletter through the creation of militaristic types and then aboandoned
it for roman. YvonneSchwemer-Scheddin's essay "Broken Images"
is a provocative perspective on the myriad stereotypesand myths associated
with blackletter, including its contemporary resurrection in hybrid form
under the impact of digital culture. Lawrence Mirsky describes the symbiotic
relationship between blackletter and roman type by exploring the social
theory of the organic and the spiritual metaphor of the crystalline. The
publication also features a timeline by Shaw and A Checklist of Blackletter
Types by Bain.
Blackletter:
Type and National
In the introduction
to Blackletter, the editors Peter Bain
and Paul Shaw outline
opposition
between blackletter and roman at the
turn of the 20th century is the