Author: Peter BurgerPublisher: Peter Burger
ISBN: 0978331818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Charles Fenerty and His Paper Invention
Author: Peter BurgerPublisher: Peter Burger
ISBN: 0978331818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Historical Account of the Substances which Have Been Used to Describe Events, and to Convey Ideas, from the Earliest Date to the Invention of Paper by Matthias Koops, Esq
Author: Matthias KoopsHistorical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper
Author: Margaret Holben EllisPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book is the seventh in the Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage. The present volume provides a selection of more than ninety-five texts tracing the development of the conservation of works of art on paper. Comprehensive and thorough, the book relates how paper conservation has responded to the changing place of prints and drawings in society. The readings include a remarkable range of historical selections from texts such as Renaissance printmaker Ugo da Carpi’s sixteenth-century petition to the Venetian senate on his invention of chiaroscuro, Thomas Churchyard’s 1588 essay in verse “A Sparke of Frendship and Warme Goodwill,” and Robert Bell’s 1773 piece “Observations Relative to the Manufacture of Paper and Printed Books in the Province of Pennsylvania.” These are complemented by influential writings by such figures as A. H. Munsell, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, along with a generous representation of recent scholarship. Each reading is introduced by short remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered, and the book is supplemented with a helpful bibliography. This volume is an indispensable tool for museum curators, conservators, and students and teachers of the conservation of works of art on paper.
THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND INSTITUTIONS IN UNION, AND OFFICIAL RECORD OF ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXIBITIONS.
Author: Journal
Author: A Brief History of the Book
Author: Steven K. GalbraithPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440869405
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book leads readers through an intriguing examination of how books began and have evolved through history and explores where future technologies may lead them. From ancient clay tablet and scrolls to medieval manuscripts and printed books to personal computers and iPads, this guide examines the fascinating history of books from 4000 BCE to the present. At each step of this evolution, technologies are examined and evaluated to show how these ideas are present from the very beginning of written communication. Moving chronologically from the ancient world to the present, the book shows how written communication media evolved from cuneiform to the Kindle. Focusing on key technologies and vital periods of historical transition, it traces an evolution that elucidates the history of the written word, at each step examining and evaluating such aspects of technologies as memory capacity, readability and writability, durability, recyclability, information security, ease and mode of access, and cost. Additional attention is paid to how these technologies were made, how they were circulated, and who was reading them.
Journal of the Society of Arts
Author: The Nature of the Page
Author: Joshua CalhounPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225189X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing—the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers—he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography
Author: Thomas Hartwell HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description