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June 25, 2004
Illustrated Capitals/Initials
I've had this book hanging around for a while ñ "Historic Alphabets and Initials" [ed. Carol Grafton]. I got it for about $5 last year, and have kept looking at it now and then . . . the potential to investigate the hybrid life of Elvis via the illustrated capital as a convention all of a sudden seemed to make itself apparent!?
These are from the Sixteenth Century, German, based on Holbein's 'Dance of Death'. Printed in Lyons by Melchior and Gaspar Treschsel, 1538.
These are from the Fifteenth Century, Italian.
It has occured to me, having done a bit of research on what I'll now refer to as "The Elvis Presely Project", that there might be an interesting project here. A set of illustrated caps ñ as a typeface ñ depicting certain aspects of The King's life, and perhaps, afterlife [upper and lower cases]? I like the religious cross-over ñ Elvis and Christ have often been linked [I'll add more about this later if this project actually takes shape]. This would definitely seem to be leading more toward the 'hybrid' side of my topic, which, at this point in time I'd say interests me more.
I do still intend to develop an appropriation project as a part of 'The Elvis Presely Project' . . . I'll try to clear this up in a following post.
Posted by Luke Wood at June 25, 2004 04:02 PM