Meta-Biography of a Modernist (about Ilia Zdanevich), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 380 pp. Selected scholarly work Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition, Columbia University Press, 1994. () The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, The University of Chicago Press, 1994. () The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination, Thames and Hudson, 1995. () The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, 1995. () Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics, Granary Books, 1998. () Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, University Of Chicago Press, 2005. () Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, with Emily McVarish, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008 () SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing, University of Chicago Press, 2009. () Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, MIT Press, 2012. () What Is?: Nine Epistemological Essays, Cuneiform Press, 2013. () Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, Harvard University Press, 2014. () Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display, MIT Press, 2020. () Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. () See also Language poets List of concrete and visual poets Notes External links Johanna Drucker Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Faculty web page Interview with Johanna Drucker on art meets technology:the history and effects of the alphabet Johanna Drucker on Joseph Nechvatal and Critical Pleasure'' Johanna Drucker, 'Temporal Photography', (Philosophy of Photography, volume 1, number 1, Intellect Publishers, Spring 2010, pp. 22–28.) References Book artists Communication design American art critics American art historians Living people American art curators American women curators Cultural historians Jewish American historians American contemporary artists Jewish American academics UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies faculty 1952 births Women book artists American women artists Jewish American artists American women historians Women art historians Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People in digital humanities Historians from California 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women Electronic literature critics