Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien (review).
Like Bagford, Trettien describes grappling with selective fragments from digital facsimiles to construct a material history. With the rapid development of book history as a discipline, recent work has focused on breaking down the book's elements, forms, genres, and agents into discrete units for clo...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 115 - 119 |
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University of Texas Press
2023
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| Sumario: | Like Bagford, Trettien describes grappling with selective fragments from digital facsimiles to construct a material history. With the rapid development of book history as a discipline, recent work has focused on breaking down the book's elements, forms, genres, and agents into discrete units for close study, zooming in on title pages, frontispieces, and indexes, for example, or singling out exceptional publishers, illustrators, and binders. |
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