Mak 2011

Mak, Bonnie. How the Page Matters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

"How the Page Matters re-examines these assumptions and focuses attention on the page by tracking the dynamic relataionship of material and meanin gin the medieval manuscript, printed book, and computational device. The following investigation will thus explore the significance of the page in the development of Western civilication and consider why the interface continues to play such an important role in the transmission of thought." (3)

"relationships of materiality, temporality, and context operate in creative and dynamic tension" (4)

"The architecture of the page is thus a complex and responsive entanglement of platform, text, image, graphic markings, and blank space. The page hosts a changing interplay of form and content, of message and medium, of the conceptual and physical, ad this shifting tension is vital to the ability of the page to remain persuasive through time." (5)