The book / Amaranth Borsuk.

Author/creator Borsuk, Amaranth, 1980- author.
Format Electronic
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Description1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects

SeriesThe MIT Press essential knowledge series
MIT Press essential knowledge series. ^A1063864
Contents Intro; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE BOOK AS OBJECT; The Original Tablet; The Papyrus Scroll; Mineral, Vegetable, Animal; The Alphabet; Scrolls and the Advent of Paper; Paper and Islam's Golden Age; A Networked Text; From Roll to Accordion to Codex; The Manuscript Tradition; Reading and Writing's Shifts -- 2. THE BOOK AS CONTENT; Starting the Presses; Type's Founding; The Press Itself; The Body of the Book; Opening the Book; The Intimate Book; Type and Face; The Aldine Revolution and Portable Libraries; Intellectual Property; The Crystal Goblet -- 3. THE BOOK AS IDEA.
Contents Defining the Artist's Book; William Blake's "Illuminated Printing"; An Aside on Printing Methods: Intaglio and Relief Printing; Stéphane Mallarmé's Book as "Spiritual Instrument"; Ed Ruscha's Democratic Multiples; The New Art of Making Books; The Book's Ideas; The Book as Virtual Reality; The Book as Cinematic Space; The Book as Recombinant Structure; The Book as Ephemeral; The Book as Mute Object -- 4. THE BOOK AS INTERFACE; Talking Books; Digital Affordances; Project Gutenberg (E-texts and E-books); The Internet Archive; Google Books; E-readers; Bookish Paratexts.
Contents Interactivity and the Digital Book; Colophon or Incipit? -- CHRONOLOGY; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FURTHER READING AND WRITING; Further Reading; Further Writing; INDEX; ABOUT AUTHOR.
Abstract The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Issued in other formPrint version: 0262535416 9780262535410
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780262346887 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0262346885 (electronic bk.)
Stock number10631 MIT Press
Stock number9780262346887 MIT Press

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