Amaranth Borsuk is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, where she also teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics. She is the author of Between Page and Screen, a digital pop-up book of poetry, and other hybrid print/digital books.
What distinguishes Borsuk's book are her perspective as an artist
and the book's breadth and depth despite its brevity.—Books on
Books, 06.07.2018
The Book will... serve as an excellent introductory textbook for
courses on book art or the history of the book. And by virtue of
its style and artist's perspective, Borsuk's book will appeal to
anyone with even a passing interest in this essential technology of
civilization and its growing role as a material and focus of art in
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.—Books on Books
Borsuk, who combines the expertise and sensibility of a scholar and
a book artist, has written a book that provides the reader with a
both technically precise and perfectly readable synthesis of our
current knowledge on the book, while organizing and structuring
this information from a specific point of view that helps find
answers to the countless changes of the book in the digital
era.—Leonardo
Progressing through The Book and the adoption of the codex, one
follows the evolving display of printed language and envisions the
pedigree of our own pages. This is essential knowledge....Borsuk's
fluid prose finds its matched form.—Ron Slate, On the Seawall
This is an easy, enjoyable account, the latest in the MIT Essential
Knowledge series, which condenses hot topics into pocket-sized
volumes.—Times Literary Supplement
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