Refresh the Book

On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44084-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1006 g

Reihe: Critical Studies

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 Bläsi, Sarah Bodman, Zenon Fajfer, Annette Gilbert, Susanne Gramatzki, Mareike Herbstreit, Viola Hildebrand-Schat, Thomas Hvid Kromann, Monika Jäger, 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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hildebrand-Schat, Viola

Bazarnik, Katarzyna

Schulz, Christoph Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Buchhandel
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Buchgestaltung
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Bläsi

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 Jäger

17 Conception – Construction – Deconstruction

An Alternative Way to Read a Book: Tobias Tank’s Hier öffnen

Viola Hildebrand-Schat

18 The Red Thread in Hier Öffnen – 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.