The Book as Instrument

By Britany Salsbury, from Volume 1, Number 5

The book, and by extension the print, was critical to Mallarmé‘s most revolutionary projects. In her recent study, The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, The Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture, Anna Sigrídur Arnar convincingly argues that the writer both informed, and was informed by, the transformation of printmaking and book culture to a much greater extent than has been previously acknowledged.