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Design Culture Artists Weeks 1-6
Design Culture, Artists
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/22/2010

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J.F. Champollion
Definition
Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
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Ts'ai Lun
Definition
Invented Paper
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Pi Sheng
Definition
Invented Moveable Type
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Cadmus of Miletus
Definition
Phoenician King, invented history, prose, greek letters
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Charlemange
Definition
king of Franks, fostered learning and arts
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Alcuin of York
Definition
hired by Charlemange,
standardized page layout, writing style, alphabet
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Johannes Gutenberg
Definition
reinvented printing press,
discovered right proportion of tin/lead/antimony
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Albrecht Durer
Definition
first commercial artist,
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse
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Lucas Cranach
Definition
illustrated Martin Luther
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William Caxton
Definition
Stabilized English Language
Printed first book in English, and in England
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Aldus Manutius
Definition
humanist,
sold pocketbooks
hires Francesco de Bologna
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Geoffrey Tory
Definition
standardizes french words
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Claude Garamond
Definition
eliminates gothic type, except in Germany
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William Caslon
Definition
fonts dominates England
used in Declaration of Independence
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John Baskerville
Definition
made printing quality better
clear, shiny, white paper
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William Playfair
Definition
infographs
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Giambattista Bodoni
Definition
modern 19th century font,
no bracketing
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William Blake
Definition
no set font, custom
illuminated printing
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Ottmar Mergenthaler
Definition
invented Linotype
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Tolbert Lanston
Definition
invented Monotype
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Joseph Niepce
Definition
first photograph, 1826
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Louis Jacques Daguerre
Definition
first photograph of human beings, 1839
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William Henry Fox Talbot
Definition
creates first negative/emulsion
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Matthew Brody
Definition
photographs war casualties
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George Eastman
Definition
1888, first Kodak camera to public
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Aloys Senefelder
Definition
invents Lithography
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Louis Prang
Definition
designed letterheads, sold printing albums/cards
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William Morris
Definition
Arts & Crafts Movement,
connection to what you make
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William A Dwiggins
Definition
designed Caledonia, book face in America
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Hokusai
Definition
35 000 prints in lifetime, views of Fuji
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Hiroshige
Definition
foreground image with negative space
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Jules Cheret
Definition
big posters, depictions of women enjoying night life
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Alphonse Mucha
Definition
focus on women, tendrils, hair
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Definition
posters of La belle epoque
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Henri van de Velde
Definition
symbolism and lines in type
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