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      Print Culture

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      Print Culture book

      From Steam Press to Ebook

      Print Culture

      DOI link for Print Culture

      Print Culture book

      From Steam Press to Ebook
      ByFrances Robertson
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 27 November 2012
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203144206
      Pages 176
      eBook ISBN 9780203144206
      Subjects Arts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Robertson, F. (2012). Print Culture: From Steam Press to Ebook (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203144206

      ABSTRACT

      With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture has so often been linked with the rise of modern industrial society, so the alleged demise of print under the onslaught of new media is often also correlated with the demise of modernity.

      This book charts the elements involved in such claims—print, culture, technology, history—through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this sense acknowledges McLuhan’s notion of the medium as the bearer of meaning. Even in the digital age, many diverse forms of print continue to circulate and gain meaning from their material expression and their history. However, Frances Robertson argues that print culture can only be understood as a constellation of diverse practices and therefore discusses a range of print cultures from 1800 the present ‘post-print’ culture.

      The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students within the areas of cultural history, art and design history, book and print history, media studies, literary studies, and the history of technology.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|17 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|19 pages

      ‘Marked surfaces’

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Steam intellects

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Lithography and ‘improper’ printing

      chapter 5|20 pages

      Greyscale: half-tone printing and the age of photomechanical reproduction

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Found objects: copyshop culture

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Conclusion: post-print culture?

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