ART 3960 - The Art History of the Book

3 credit hours

Prerequisites: ART 1920 and ART 1930 with C or better 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 books which replaced handwritten ones.

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