SMC228H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Typeface, Wood, Typography
20 Nov 2018
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Lecture 1: intro (the book as a medium) Francesco griffo from bologna (late 15th century): invented italics. Printing used to be in italics to make text smaller. Book plate: tells us about ownership of book, etc. Large role in shaping our society, culture, memory i. e. martin luther"s bible of 1522. Material artifacts that are part of our human condition. Robert darnton: how do books come into being? . How the book came to be/was made. Readers as the content of any book (relevant presence; shared collective cultural knowledge that is carried on by books) What do readers make of them? (what we do with books) - we react. Print era: started about 500 years ago. Book history: started with invention of writing. Covers manuscript culture (books copied by hand) Book as material/physical object materiality -> its cultural context. Book as a text - content/knowledge regardless of its form, it carries on tradition/knowledge/ storytelling.
