Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Typography in the twentieth century:
1900-2000
The twentieth century was a period of incredible
ferment and change. Unprecedented advances
in science and technology, and revolutionary
developments in art and design left their marks
on typography.
1900
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1913:
Wassily
Kandinsky,
Improvisation
31 (Sea Battle).
1914-18:
World War I.
c. 1915:
Kasimir
Malevich, painting
shown at the 0.10 group
exhibition launching
Suprematism.
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1900:
Peter
Behrens, dedication page
from
Feste des Lebens
und der Künst
.
1903
: The Wright
brothers achieve the first
powered flight.
1905:
Albert Einstein
proposes his theory of
relativity.
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1909:
Filippo
Marinetti founds
Futurism, experiments
with typographic form
and syntax.
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c. 1910:
German
sans serif “block style.”
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c. 1916:
Bert
Thomas, British war
bonds poster.
1917-22:
The Dada
movement protests the
war and conventional art.
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1917:
John
Heartfield, Dadaist
advertisement.
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1917:
Vilmos
Huszar,
De Stijl
magazine
cover.
1918:
Czar Nicholas
II and his family are
executed.
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1919:
Raoul
Hausmann, Dada poem.
1920:
Women's suffrage
is granted in the United
States.
1920:
Bolsheviks
triumph in the Russian
Revolution.
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