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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. --

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When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco's bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection of visual signs to represent verbal signs. As an act of translation, the cover of a book ought to be an 'equivalent representation' of the text. But in the absence of any established interpretive criteria, how can equivalence between the visual and the verbal be determined and interpreted? R

Graphics industry --- Semiotics --- Book design. --- Semiotics and the arts. --- Semiotics and the arts --- Book design --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- #KVHA:Vertaalwetenschap --- #KVHA:Book design --- Literaire vertaling en non-verbale communicatie --- Vertalen en paratekst --- Vertalen en cultuur --- Vertalen en non-verbale communicatie --- Vertalen en semiotiek --- Eco, Umberto, --- Literaire vertaling en non-verbale communicatie. --- Vertalen en paratekst. --- Vertalen en cultuur. --- Vertalen en non-verbale communicatie. --- Vertalen en semiotiek. --- Design, Book --- Arts and semiotics --- Arts --- Books --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Format

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Rereading one of the most influential architectural books of the twentieth century--as intellectual project, graphic design landmark, and prescient introduction to issues of concern today.

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“The New Russian Book is an amazing cultural history of post-Soviet Russia analyzed through the ups and downs of its extraordinary graphic culture. The author introduces us to scores of Russian books published over the last few decades, cheap paperbacks and richly bound hardbacks, popular fiction and rare volumes, and helps us to discover the extraordinary story behind every cover and every binding. In her work, Beck Pristed brilliantly demonstrates how reading involves understanding with your hands as well as with your eyes.” — Damiano Rebecchini, co-editor of Reading in Russia and of the forth-coming A History of Reading in Russia, Russia This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique material that illustrates a radically changing notion of literature in the transformation of Soviet print culture to a post-Soviet book market. It delivers a profound and critical exploration of Russian visual imaginary of classic, popular, and contemporary prose. Among all the carelessly bungled covers of mass-published post-Soviet series the study identifies gems from experimental designers. By taking a comparative approach to the clash of two formerly separate book cultures, the Western and the Soviet, that results both in a mixture of highbrow and lowbrow forms and in ideological re-interpretations of the literary works, this book contributes to opening an East-West dialogue between the fields of Russian studies, contemporary book and media history, art, design, and visual studies. .

Book design --- Design, Book --- Books --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Format --- Books-History. --- European literature. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- History of the Book. --- European Literature. --- Literary History. --- European literature --- Books—History. --- Literature—History and criticism.