'Kolkata: City of Print is a literary essay by Mara Züst realized through research conducted during several stays in Kolkata and focused on different aspects of the print medium in this Indian city. Modern-day Kolkata is strongly identified with print, from artistic print making to lithographed circus posters produced in mass quantities. Print as an aesthetic element is also the mainstay of the design of the resulting experimental book project, which has just been released in English and Bengali. The book consists of a smallformat reader reproduced as a facsimile. It was produced locally in print workshops in Kolkata. The publication is a co-production of Spector Books (Leipzig) and Lyriqal Books (Kolkata).' - from the publisher
Includes glossary of terms and bibliography.
Onsite
English,
Bengali
2019
164
9783959052948
1
monograph
Introduction
Comrades and Copying
Type Your Print, Xerox!
Printing Techniques for the Masses, Part 1
Print as (Public Transport) Defense Devices
Typists, Carvers, and Printers
Black Towns, Black Letters, Black Birds, Dead Bodies
Printing Techniques for the Masses, Part 2
A Prepress Museum
A Glimpse of History: Bengal, Bengali, and Bangla
Lekhan Abol Tabol
Bengal — West Bengal — West Pakistan — Bangladesh
History Pressed into a Piece of Paper
Lines Stroked on Maps and in Drawing Books
The Printed Image and the Arts
Libraries of Workers and Dreamers
Forms and Punches, as Polyphonic as Possible
Whitespace and Blueprint
The Bengali Confusion of Tongues
Our Own Infrastructure
Self-Determined Foci and Distribution Channels
Flowers and an Open Classroom
Trees and Lithography Stones
West Bengal: Red Flags on a White Background
Archives of Societal Change
Addas, Bandhopadhyay, Chetna, Dasgupta, etc.
Paper Isn't Cheap
About the Printing of Money
Kolkata: City of Print
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