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Chapter 18: The Printed Word: Architect of Nationalism

The print has played a significant role in history since Gutenberg created the printing press with movable type.

Just like every other medium, 'print' affects you psychologically and socially. 🤑

<aside> 🧠 I am going to bring a lot of quotes from this book (because it’s pretty direct) and ‘decon’ it one by one

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Psychically the printed book, an extension of the visual faculty, intensified perspective and the fixed point of view.

Associated with the visual stress on point of view and the vanishing point that provides the illusion of perspective there comes another illusion that space is visual, uniform and continuous.

Print, being a hot medium, made everything visual, uniform, repeatable, fragmented, and continuous.

The use of perspective drawing and vanishing points in Renaissance period paintings was influenced by print.