LACY SOTO | DATE 8/13/2022

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents the launch of Johanna Drucker's ‘Inventing the Alphabet'

Saturday, August 13 at 3PM PST, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present author Johanna Drucker in conversation with designer Louise Sandhaus, author of Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986. Click here to pre-order a signed copy of Inventing the Alphabet.

Published by the University of Chicago Press, Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history.

This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.

ARTBOOK @ HAUSER & WIRTH LOS ANGELES BOOKSTORE
Inventing the Alphabet launch with Johanna Drucker
Saturday, August 13 at 3PM PST
917 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-988-7413
Click here to pre-order a signed copy