Refresh the Book
On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing
Published on 30. April 2021
Book
Hardback
530 pages
978-90-04-44084-5 (ISBN)
Description
Refresh the Book contains reflections on the multimodal nature of the book, focusing on its changing perception, functions, forms, and potential in the digital age. Offering an overview of key concepts and approaches, such as liberature, technotexts, and bookishness, this volume of essays addresses the specificity of the printed book as a complex cultural phenomenon. It discusses diverse forms of representation and expression, both in literary and non-literary texts, as well as in artist's books. Of special interest are these aspects of the book which resist remediation into the digital form. Finally, the volume contains an extensive section devoted to artistic practice as research, discussing the book as the synthesis of the arts, and site for performative aesthetic activity.
Christin Barbarino, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Christoph Blaesi, Sarah Bodman, Zenon Fajfer, Annette Gilbert, Susanne Gramatzki, Mareike Herbstreit, Viola Hildebrand-Schat, Thomas Hvid Kromann, Monika Jaeger, Eva Linhart, Bettina Lockemann, Patrizia Meinert, Bernhard Metz, Sebastian Schmideler, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Christoph Benjamin Schulz, usus (Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz), Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sakine Weikert, Gabriele Wix
Christin Barbarino, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Christoph Blaesi, Sarah Bodman, Zenon Fajfer, Annette Gilbert, Susanne Gramatzki, Mareike Herbstreit, Viola Hildebrand-Schat, Thomas Hvid Kromann, Monika Jaeger, Eva Linhart, Bettina Lockemann, Patrizia Meinert, Bernhard Metz, Sebastian Schmideler, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Christoph Benjamin Schulz, usus (Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz), Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sakine Weikert, Gabriele Wix
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
870 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-44084-5 (9789004440845)
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KATARZYNA BAZARNIK, PhD, is a literary scholar, translator, and curator of Liberature Reading Room. She lectures at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She has published on James Joyce, experimental novel, literary theory, especially liberature, and literary translation.
CHRISTOPH BENJAMIN SCHULZ, DPhil, is a literary scholar and art historian. He researches aspects of the materiality and mediality of literary communication, such as strategies for the aestheticisation and semantisation of books in recent literary practice as well as in the history of the book and literature. Beside his academic activities, he has developed exhibitions for well-known museums.
VIOLA HILDEBRAND-SCHAT studied literature, philosophy and psychology (M.A.) and received a PhD in Art history. She lectures at Goethe-University/Frankfurt am Main and Lomonosov State University Moscow. She specializes in Contemporary Art. She has published on Marcel Broodthaers and artists' books.
CHRISTOPH BENJAMIN SCHULZ, DPhil, is a literary scholar and art historian. He researches aspects of the materiality and mediality of literary communication, such as strategies for the aestheticisation and semantisation of books in recent literary practice as well as in the history of the book and literature. Beside his academic activities, he has developed exhibitions for well-known museums.
VIOLA HILDEBRAND-SCHAT studied literature, philosophy and psychology (M.A.) and received a PhD in Art history. She lectures at Goethe-University/Frankfurt am Main and Lomonosov State University Moscow. She specializes in Contemporary Art. She has published on Marcel Broodthaers and artists' books.
Content
Foreword
?Katarzyna Bazarnik, Viola Hildebrand-Schat and Christoph Benjamin Schulz
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
The Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing: An Introduction
??Viola Hildebrand-Schat
PART 1
Methodologies/Concepts/Approaches
1?Empirical Preprocessing
?Approaches from Multimodality Research for the Printed Book
??Christoph Blaesi
2?Affordances of the Book
?A Tentative Typology of Liberature
??Katarzyna Bazarnik
3?The Book as Reading Machine and as Black Box
?On Book Machines and Machine Books
??Monika Schmitz-Emans
4?Varieties of Contemporary Artistic Publishing
??Annette Gilbert
5?Artists' Books and their Institutionalisation in the Digital Age
??Thomas Hvid Kromann
6?Digital Bookishness and Digitally Enhanced Publications Against the Backdrop of Apologies of the Book during the Advent of Digital Media
??Christoph Benjamin Schulz
7?ABC Book, Orbis Pictus, Pictorial Primer
?On the Materiality of 19th-Century Concept Picture Books between the Aura of the Book Object and the Challenges of the Digital Humanities
??Sebastian Schmideler
8?The Photobook
?An Approach Incorporating Aspects of Activity
??Bettina Lockemann
9?Spending Time within Books
??Sarah Bodman
10?Re-Readings
?Philosophy and Its Presentation in the (Artist's) Book
??Susanne Gramatzki
11?The Exhibition Space
?On the Hybridity of the Publication Between Execution and Extension of Spatiotemporal Concepts
??Viola Hildebrand-Schat
12?Bookishness and the Body of the Book/ the Body of the Reader
?On the Usages of Books
??Bernhard Metz
PART 2
Artists' Statements/ Artists' Examples
13?Liberature
?A New Constellation in the Gutenberg Galaxy
??Zenon Fajfer
14?The Making of Artists' Books
?Craft-Based Production Processes Viewed from an Artistic Standpoint
??Patrizia Meinert
15?Betwixt & Between
?Some Thoughts on the Subject of the Fold and Folding in the Context of the Book
??<usus> Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz
16?: Artists' Books in the Digital Transition
?From Mechanical Typesetting to Fax Machines and Email Exchange
??Monika Jaeger
17?Conception - Construction - Deconstruction
?An Alternative Way to Read a Book: Tobias Tank's Hier oeffnen
??Viola Hildebrand-Schat
18?The Red Thread in Hier OEffnen - Ein wahrlich Einmaliges Buch (Open Here - A Truly Unique Book)
?On Tobias Tank
??Mareike Herbstreit
19?Visual Notes
?Teju Cole's Blind Spot/#blindspot, between Analogue and Digital Narrative Devices
??Sakine Weikert
20?Jan van der Til
?The Hybrid Artist's Book
??Anne Thurmann-Jajes
21?La Perfecta Casada by Elena del Rivero
?Historical Text and Book Performance
??Christin Barbarino
22?The Exhibition Catalogue
?A Hybrid between Documentation and Seduction, Research and Cultural Business, Applied and Autonomous Art
??Gabriele Wix
23?Michael Riedel
?Books as Event
??Eva Linhart
Index
?Katarzyna Bazarnik, Viola Hildebrand-Schat and Christoph Benjamin Schulz
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
The Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing: An Introduction
??Viola Hildebrand-Schat
PART 1
Methodologies/Concepts/Approaches
1?Empirical Preprocessing
?Approaches from Multimodality Research for the Printed Book
??Christoph Blaesi
2?Affordances of the Book
?A Tentative Typology of Liberature
??Katarzyna Bazarnik
3?The Book as Reading Machine and as Black Box
?On Book Machines and Machine Books
??Monika Schmitz-Emans
4?Varieties of Contemporary Artistic Publishing
??Annette Gilbert
5?Artists' Books and their Institutionalisation in the Digital Age
??Thomas Hvid Kromann
6?Digital Bookishness and Digitally Enhanced Publications Against the Backdrop of Apologies of the Book during the Advent of Digital Media
??Christoph Benjamin Schulz
7?ABC Book, Orbis Pictus, Pictorial Primer
?On the Materiality of 19th-Century Concept Picture Books between the Aura of the Book Object and the Challenges of the Digital Humanities
??Sebastian Schmideler
8?The Photobook
?An Approach Incorporating Aspects of Activity
??Bettina Lockemann
9?Spending Time within Books
??Sarah Bodman
10?Re-Readings
?Philosophy and Its Presentation in the (Artist's) Book
??Susanne Gramatzki
11?The Exhibition Space
?On the Hybridity of the Publication Between Execution and Extension of Spatiotemporal Concepts
??Viola Hildebrand-Schat
12?Bookishness and the Body of the Book/ the Body of the Reader
?On the Usages of Books
??Bernhard Metz
PART 2
Artists' Statements/ Artists' Examples
13?Liberature
?A New Constellation in the Gutenberg Galaxy
??Zenon Fajfer
14?The Making of Artists' Books
?Craft-Based Production Processes Viewed from an Artistic Standpoint
??Patrizia Meinert
15?Betwixt & Between
?Some Thoughts on the Subject of the Fold and Folding in the Context of the Book
??<usus> Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz
16?: Artists' Books in the Digital Transition
?From Mechanical Typesetting to Fax Machines and Email Exchange
??Monika Jaeger
17?Conception - Construction - Deconstruction
?An Alternative Way to Read a Book: Tobias Tank's Hier oeffnen
??Viola Hildebrand-Schat
18?The Red Thread in Hier OEffnen - Ein wahrlich Einmaliges Buch (Open Here - A Truly Unique Book)
?On Tobias Tank
??Mareike Herbstreit
19?Visual Notes
?Teju Cole's Blind Spot/#blindspot, between Analogue and Digital Narrative Devices
??Sakine Weikert
20?Jan van der Til
?The Hybrid Artist's Book
??Anne Thurmann-Jajes
21?La Perfecta Casada by Elena del Rivero
?Historical Text and Book Performance
??Christin Barbarino
22?The Exhibition Catalogue
?A Hybrid between Documentation and Seduction, Research and Cultural Business, Applied and Autonomous Art
??Gabriele Wix
23?Michael Riedel
?Books as Event
??Eva Linhart
Index