Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (New by G. Partington,A. Smyth

By G. Partington,A. Smyth

This wealthy and sundry choice of essays through students and interviews with artists ways the fraught subject of e-book destruction from a brand new perspective, starting off another heritage of the slicing, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval interval to our personal age.

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