|
The Art of Calligraphy
has twice been killed stone dead by mechanical invention, and has twice
found a new set of justifications. As an industry for the manual
copying of texts, it was destroyed by the printing press. As an
essential tool of commerce and finance and an evidence of gentility, it
flourished for three centuries and was strangled by the typewriter. In
its third and present lifetime, it stands with the fine arts, safe from
any further technological threat.
The Times Literary Supplement, 1965
|
IAMPETH All rights reserved. Any use of content without
permission is strictly prohibited.