Print Culture: From Steam Press to eBook

ISBN-13: 9780415574167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 168 str.

Frances Robertson

Opis

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. This book charts the elements involved in such claims 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. 'Marked Surfaces'  3. Steam Intellects  4. Lithography and 'Improper' Printing  5. Grey Scale: Half Tone Printing and the Age of Photomechanical Reproduction  6. Found Objects: Copyshop Culture  7. Conclusion: Post-Print Culture?  Bibliography

O autorze

Frances Robertson