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In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes shows how paper has been civilization’s constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural, and scientific accomplishments. Since its invention in China nearly two millennia ago, the technology of paper has spread throughout the inhabited world. Basbanes traces paper’s trail from the(...)
On paper : the everything of its two-thousand year history by a self-confessed bibliophiliac
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In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes shows how paper has been civilization’s constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural, and scientific accomplishments. Since its invention in China nearly two millennia ago, the technology of paper has spread throughout the inhabited world. Basbanes traces paper’s trail from the earliest handmade sheets to the modern-day mills. Paper, yoked to politics, has played a crucial role in the unfolding of landmark events, from the American Revolution to Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers to the aftermath of 9/11. Without paper, modern hygienic practice would be unimaginable; as currency, people will do almost anything to possess it; and, as a tool of expression, it is inextricable from human culture.
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Les dimensions sociales du livre d'artiste (ouvrage collectif édité par Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, avec un ensemble d'études et de témoignages de chercheurs, d'historiens, de bibliothécaires, d'éditeurs et d'artistes, ainsi que la réédition de deux textes historiques de Dick Higgins).
Le livre d'artiste: quels projets pour l'art?
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Les dimensions sociales du livre d'artiste (ouvrage collectif édité par Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, avec un ensemble d'études et de témoignages de chercheurs, d'historiens, de bibliothécaires, d'éditeurs et d'artistes, ainsi que la réédition de deux textes historiques de Dick Higgins).
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For centuries, the physical book has been the ideal reading machine. So as books are increasingly supplanted by digital, onscreen reading, it is only natural that we find ourselves wondering what will be lost in the transition. This collection, edited by scholars with expertise in electronic publishing and the digital humanities, focuses instead on what we might gain—how(...)
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For centuries, the physical book has been the ideal reading machine. So as books are increasingly supplanted by digital, onscreen reading, it is only natural that we find ourselves wondering what will be lost in the transition. This collection, edited by scholars with expertise in electronic publishing and the digital humanities, focuses instead on what we might gain—how screen technology might shape and improve the very activities for which we have always used paper.
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Between 2010 and 2013, editor Brigitte Schuster interviewed thirteen prominent Dutch book designers. Among the designers in focus are Karen Polder, Armand Mevis, Walter Nikkels, Hansje van Halem and Joost Grootens. The interviews offer a fascinating look into the world of book designers who belong to different generations, and whose work has been shaped by different(...)
Book designers from the Netherlands
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Between 2010 and 2013, editor Brigitte Schuster interviewed thirteen prominent Dutch book designers. Among the designers in focus are Karen Polder, Armand Mevis, Walter Nikkels, Hansje van Halem and Joost Grootens. The interviews offer a fascinating look into the world of book designers who belong to different generations, and whose work has been shaped by different experiences. An intimate view of the designing process and the individuals themselves emerges as the methodology and motivations of each is uncovered.
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What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book—from endpapers to footnotes—is assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground.(...)
The thing, the book: a monument to the book as object
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What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book—from endpapers to footnotes—is assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground. The result is a collaborative group art project like no other.
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A “good book” and whatever it is that makes a book beautiful are not easy to define – the details of a design may well suit one book to perfection, but be very much out of place with another publication. With this in mind the author and designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser launched his website “A good book”, where publications of many different genres are presented and discussed(...)
61 books with black type on white cover
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A “good book” and whatever it is that makes a book beautiful are not easy to define – the details of a design may well suit one book to perfection, but be very much out of place with another publication. With this in mind the author and designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser launched his website “A good book”, where publications of many different genres are presented and discussed especially in the context of their creative design.
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This book draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, presenting an array of reader interactions with books in the form of annotations, improvements, corrections, ornamentation, and suggestive wear-and-tear. The result is a snapshot of the life of books and readers in the eighteenth century: in the British Isles and(...)
The spacious margin : Eighteenth-Century printed books and the traces of their readers
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This book draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, presenting an array of reader interactions with books in the form of annotations, improvements, corrections, ornamentation, and suggestive wear-and-tear. The result is a snapshot of the life of books and readers in the eighteenth century: in the British Isles and beyond, from the modestly literate users of well-thumbed dictionaries to learned critics of canonical poets and contemporary philosophers.
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More than 450 entries completed for recognition in this year’s competition, a substantial increase from previous years. Undeterred, the jury sifted through this mass of remarkable work, assessing books based on conception, graphic design and typography, with particular attention to innovation and originality. Also considered were the quality of printing, bookbinding(...)
The most beautiful Swiss books 2012
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More than 450 entries completed for recognition in this year’s competition, a substantial increase from previous years. Undeterred, the jury sifted through this mass of remarkable work, assessing books based on conception, graphic design and typography, with particular attention to innovation and originality. Also considered were the quality of printing, bookbinding workmanship and materials utilised. In the end, nineteen exemplary books were selected as finalists, each of which is reviewed here. Also included are short interviews with jury members, an overview of the deliberations, technical data about the books and an insert with complete texts in German, French and Italian.
Books!
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BOOKS! by Murray McCain and John Alcorn, the beloved classic children’s book originally published in 1962, is now re-released for the first time in a new, large format. This 1962 The New York Times book of the year is beloved for its charming, hand-drawn illustrations, inventive typography, and sweet homage to the very nature of books themselves. The author and(...)
Books!
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BOOKS! by Murray McCain and John Alcorn, the beloved classic children’s book originally published in 1962, is now re-released for the first time in a new, large format. This 1962 The New York Times book of the year is beloved for its charming, hand-drawn illustrations, inventive typography, and sweet homage to the very nature of books themselves. The author and illustrator celebrate the importance of books in our everyday lives, through words and graphics that are all beautifully designed and printed with fluorescent inks.
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This book compares antiquarianism in a global context, examining its roots in the ancient Near East, its flourishing in early modern Europe and East Asia, and its manifestations in nonliterate societies of Melanesia and Polynesia. By establishing wide-reaching geographical and historical perspectives, the essays reveal the universality of antiquarianism as an embodiment(...)
World antiquarianism : comparative perspectives
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This book compares antiquarianism in a global context, examining its roots in the ancient Near East, its flourishing in early modern Europe and East Asia, and its manifestations in nonliterate societies of Melanesia and Polynesia. By establishing wide-reaching geographical and historical perspectives, the essays reveal the universality of antiquarianism as an embodiment of the human mind and open new avenues for understanding the representation of the past, from ancient societies to the present.