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for the first time pictorial statements of a kind that could
be exactly repeated during the effective life of the printing
surface. This exact repetition of pictorial statements has
had incalculable effects upon knowledge and thought,
upon science and technology, of every kind. It is hardly
too much to say that since the invention of writing there
has been no more important invention than that of the
exactly repeatable pictorial statement.
The too obvious character of exact repeatability that is
inherent in typography misses the literary man. He attaches
little significance to this merely technological feature and
concentrates on the “content,” as if he were listening to the
author. As an artist aware of formal structures as complex
statements in themselves, Ivins brought to prints and
typography and manuscript alike, a rare mode of attention. He