The Book as Instrument: Stephane Mallarme, the Artist's Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture / Anna Sigridur Arnar

Identifier:REF.AM.1970

Dimensions:xi, 395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Publication dates:2011

Subjects: Book design., Printing -- History., illustrations, literary history

Description:"Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) was a French Symbolist poet, theorist, and teacher whose ideas and legendary salons set the stage for twentieth-century experimentation in poetry, music, theater, and art. A canonical figure in the legacy of modernism, Mallarme was also a lifelong champion of the book as both a literary endeavor and a carefully crafted material object. In The Book as Instrument, Anna Sigridur Arnar explores how this object functioned for Mallarme and his artistic circle, arguing that the book became a strategic site for encouraging a modern public to actively partake in the creative act, an idea that informed later twentieth-century developments such as conceptual and performance art."-book jacket Defining the book -- Reading Mallarmé -- The heroic legacy of the book -- Forging the livre de peintre -- From illustration to original print -- The livre de peintre and independent publishing -- Reading and designing the book -- Paradigms of reading -- Designing the livre moderne in the international context: un coup de dés, art nouveau, and nascent mass media -- Transformations of the book -- Design and mathematical patterns in le livre -- The afterlife of the book.