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Past, Present, Future

by Caroline Archer-Parré (Edited), James Mussell (Edited)
©2023, Edited Collection, XXIV, 276 Pages
Media & Communication

Series: Printing History and Culture, Volume 4

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Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future brings together scholars, curators, collectors and printers to assess the current state of letterpress printing. It acknowledges the decline of letterpress as a commercial printing technique and considers the risks this poses for letterpress’s future. However, in describing the many uses to which letterpress is put and the diverse communities of printers who still work with it, the book celebrates the tenacity of letterpress as a process which continues to thrive despite such challenges. Letterpress Printing examines the continuing life of letterpress and applauds its revival through describing the circumstances in which it flourishes and the many ways it is now used. By setting this revival in the context of its ostensible decline, the book sets out the ways in which current practice draws upon and preserves the history of printing while taking it in new and unexpected directions.

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. About the editors
  5. About the book
  6. This eBook can be cited
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Letterpress Aesthetics (Johanna Drucker)
  12. Introduction: Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future (Caroline Archer-Parré and James Mussell)
  13. Part I Letterpress in Transition
    1. 1 Designers in the Composing Room: A Progressive Tale of Typographic Transgression (Catherine Dixon)
    2. 2 A Tangible Space: Letterpress Printing within Artists’ Books and Small Publishing Practice (Angie Butler)
    3. 3 An Education in Letterpress: Charting the History of Letterpress Education in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Alexander Cooper, Rose Gridneff and Andrew Haslam)
  14. Part II Letterpress and Preservation
    1. 4 Preserving Historically Correct Letterpress Printing in Theory and Practice (Patrick Goossens)
    2. 5 Between Theory and Practice: Bringing Letterpress and Digital Together in Printing Museums (Alan Marshall)
  15. Part III Letterpress’s Future Potential
    1. 6 Inmediate Writing: Pavel Büchler and the Logic of Letterpress (Nick Thurston)
    2. 7 Letterpress in Portugal: The Future of Design and Its Engagement with Past Printing Techniques (Pedro Amado, Vítor Quelhas and Catarina Silva)
    3. 8 P22 Blox: Space-Age Letterpress Modularity (Richard Kegler)
    4. 9 East Meets West: Merging Technology, Language and Culture (Sydney J. Shep and Ya-Wen Ho)
  16. Bibliography
  17. Notes on Contributors
  18. Index
  19. Series Index
Pages:
XXIV, 276
Year:
2023
ISBN (PAPERBACK):
9781800794214 (Active)
ISBN (EPUB):
9781800799301 (Active)
ISBN (PDF):
9781800799295 (Active)
Language:
English
Published:
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2023. XXIV, 276 pp., 34 fig. b/w, 4 tables.

Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography, Co-director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture at Birmingham City University, and Chairman of the Baskerville Society. With an interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely. She is the author of three books, contributes to numerous journals and edited volumes, and writes regularly for the trade and academic press.

James Mussell is currently Professor of Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures at the University of Leeds and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre CHoP). He is the author of Science, Time, and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (2007) and The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012). He is one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018), , a pioneering digital resource, and the books W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary (2012) and A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge (2020).

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