The Work of Stephen Harvard

A Life in Letters

David P. Becker

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Houghton Library,U.S.
31 March 2005

Individual artists, art monographs; Lettering & calligraphy

Series: Houghton Library Publications

"Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Stephen Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, Harvard left both a collection of graphic works and a body of prose that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, ""a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light,"" a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible ""as the search for perpetual motion."" David P. Becker's lovingly edited and sumptuously illustrated catalog, which won the American Library Association's 1991 Leab Exhibition Catalog Award for Excellence, bears out Harvard's conviction that typography, which is at once art and craft, must ""strive to satisfy the intelligence and not the intelligentsia."""

By: David P. Becker
Imprint: Houghton Library,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780914630043
ISBN 10: 0914630040
Series: Houghton Library Publications
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 31 March 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David P. Becker is the former Assistant Curator of Printing and Graphics Arts, Houghton Library at Harvard College Library, Harvard University.