ART 3960 - The Art History of the Book

3 credit hours

Prerequisite: ART 1930 or permission of instructor. Interdisciplinary investigation of the forces which have conditioned the composition, production, and consumption of the Western book from antiquity to the present. Emphasis on such transitional phases as the replacement of the roll by the codex in the fourth century and the fifteenth-century advent of printed book which replaced handwritten ones.

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