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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827858903321

Autore

Robertson Frances <1952-, >

Titolo

Print culture : from steam press to ebook / / Frances Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1136502378

9780203144206

0203144201

1283871955

1136502386

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Directions in cultural history

Disciplina

686.209

Soggetti

Printing - History

Printing - Social aspects - History

Graphic design (Typography) - History

Communication and technology

Digital media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Marked surfaces -- Steam intellects -- Lithography and "improper" printing -- Grey scale : half tone printing and the age of photomechanical reproduction -- Found objects : copyshop culture -- Conclusion : post-print culture.

Sommario/riassunto

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 s