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Cargando... White Magic: The Age of Paperpor Lothar Müller
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. comprehensive history of papermaking; links well to the history of printing ( ) When journalists review books written by other journalists which furthermore deal with a still essential element of their craft, a healthy dose of skepticism is in order. The frenetic applause this book received in the press is certainly not warranted. It is a beautifully designed book that takes a literary approach to the history of paper. It is not a history of technology; it is also not an economic history and it quickly discards paper products not of the printed world (from toilet paper to sanitary napkins). Mainly, it is an account of what the literati such as Goethe thought and wrote about the wonders of paper which is nice to read but not really sufficient to cover all the magic advertised in the title. The most interesting aspect I found the textile recycling origin of paper which made paper production dependent on the rags of the city which would be turned into paper and sold to the citizens. A true urban product that only left the city when a technological revolution permitted to create paper out of wood. It is also noteworthy that the paper revolution is bigger than the Gutenberg print revolution as printing is only one use of the versatile paper. Printers still play an important part in this book, such as explaining the insider joke of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. In printer jargon, a "grass" was an experimental non-customer ordered set page. As seems almost mandatory among journalists of a certain age, the fear of modern technology, the internet and e-books.mars the final part of the book. Overall, the content of the book seems to fit more into the perishable world of electronic texts than enduring paper. It is certainly not a book that anyone would safe in case of a fire. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became the setting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint it became a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book Lothar Müller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper technology revolution of the nineteenth century paved the way for the creation of the modern daily press. His key witnesses are the works of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, Balzac and Herman Melville, James Joyce and Paul Valéry. Müller writes not only about books, however: he also writes about pamphlets, playing cards, papercutting and legal pads. We think we understand the ?Gutenberg era?, but we can understand it better when we explore the world that underpinned it: the paper age. Today, with the proliferation of digital devices, paper may seem to be a residue of the past, but Müller shows that the humble technology of paper is in many ways the most fundamental medium of the modern world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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