Fowler in Focus: Communication Systems in a Global Context
Written and visual communication has taken many forms over human history, whether based on graphic signs or phonetic-alphabetic systems. This installation features an ancient Egyptian stela, an illuminated medieval Armenian Gospel, an early modern Inka knotted khipu that records sophisticated numerical accounting, the manuscript of Hank Levy鈥檚 1973 musical score 鈥淲hiplash,鈥� after which the 2014 film was named, and the logbook recording 鈥渢he birth of the Internet鈥� here at UCLA. A selection of rare books and manuscripts showcases the distinctive writing systems of Japanese, Ge鈥檈z, Arabic, Javanese, and English. Religious texts embody the divine; calendars often guide prophecies; and all these texts seek to move a message from sender to receiver. Meanwhile, the art of writing itself has inspired many artists, such as the 20th-century Senegalese painter Yelimane Fall whose inventive calligraphic style manifests the healing power of words.
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Written and visual communication has taken many forms over human history, whether based on graphic signs or phonetic-alphabetic systems. This installation features an ancient Egyptian stela, an illuminated medieval Armenian Gospel, an early modern Inka knotted khipu that records sophisticated numerical accounting, the manuscript of Hank Levy鈥檚 1973 musical score 鈥淲hiplash,鈥� after which the 2014 film was named, and the logbook recording 鈥渢he birth of the Internet鈥� here at UCLA. A selection of rare books and manuscripts showcases the distinctive writing systems of Japanese, Ge鈥檈z, Arabic, Javanese, and English. Religious texts embody the divine; calendars often guide prophecies; and all these texts seek to move a message from sender to receiver. Meanwhile, the art of writing itself has inspired many artists, such as the 20th-century Senegalese painter Yelimane Fall whose inventive calligraphic style manifests the healing power of words.
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