Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)
Studio Praxis and Pedagogy

Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

Gary Frost
University of Iowa
Openings: Studies in Book Art

Keywords

  • printing,
  • publishing,
  • press,
  • history

Abstract

Review of Elizabeth Eisenstein's book, Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending, and why this history of the printing press is of interest to book artists.