Johanna Drucker is an author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry and art.

Drucker earned her B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1973 and her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1986. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.[1] She was previously the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY, Associate Professor of Art History at Yale University, and Assistant Professor of Art History at Columbia University and University of Texas, Dallas. She has also been the Digital Humanities Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, Digital Cultures Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, and Mellon Faculty Fellow in Fine Arts at Harvard University.[2]

Books

• Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition, Columbia University Press, 1994. (ISBN 978-0231080835)
• The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, The University of Chicago Press, 1994. (ISBN 978-0226165028)
• The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination, Thames and Hudson, 1995. (ISBN 978-0500016084)
• The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, 1995. (ISBN 978-1887123693)
• Prove Before Laying, Druckwerk, New Haven, 1997. Chosen on the merit of its typography for the New York Public Library's Ninety from the Nineties.
• Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics, Granary Books, 1998. (ISBN 978-1887123235)
• Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, University Of Chicago Press, 2005. (ISBN 978-0226165059)
• Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, with Emily McVarish, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008 (ISBN 978-0132410755)
• SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

External links

• Faculty web page
• CV
• Artists books online, designed by Johanna Drucker
• Media Studies at the University of Virginia
• The Art of the Book: An Exhibit of Work by Johanna Drucker and Bruce Mau, University of Albany, SUNY.
• Johanna Drucker on Joseph Nechvatal and Critical Pleasure

See also

• Language poets
• List of California Institute of the Arts people
• List of concrete and visual poets

References

• Eye, No. 18, Vol. 5, edited by Rick Poynor, Emap Construct, London, Autumn 1995.