1、3100 单词， 1.6 万英文字符， 5000 汉字 出处： Thomson E M. Aesthetic Issues in Book Cover Design 18801910J. Journal of Design History, 2010, 23(3):229-245. Aesthetic Issues in Book Cover Design 1880-1910 EM Thomson This essay examines the aesthetic issues that book binders and their chroniclers addressed in
2、 France, England and America from 1880 to 1910, a period during which the aesthetics of book covers became a topic of passionate debate. In this debate, the distinction between fine hand binding and commercial cloth binding was of less concern than the function of the b
3、ook as a designed object, the book cover's relation to the text it enclosed and the appropriate forms of decoration for book bindings. It is generally acknowledged that the field was reinvigorated, if not transformed, by two bookbinders, Thomas James Cobden Sanderson (184
4、0-1922) in England and Henri Francois Marius Michel (1846-1925) in France. Both men rejected the duplication of traditional decorative schemes and aspired to a more personal, artistic expression. These ideas are analysed as responses to the challenge of designing objects for the world of mass
5、 production. Keywords: bookbinders-book binding-book design-decorative arts-decorative design-ornament 'Modern book-bindings and their designers,' the 1899-1900 special issue of The Studio, began with the statement: 'Books hold a distinct place among the subjects of applied ar
6、t. Whatever beauty they may claim in form and ornament belongs to an order quite their own'. Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904), the leading designer of cloth bindings for Houghton Mifflin, wrote that the well designed book was 'an aesthetic tract'
7、and argued that the book should not be thought of as simply a three-dimensional object to be adorned: When we speak of book-illustrating in any of its forms I feel that we should be thinking of the book all the time, of this thing as apart from everything else. A book is a little issue all by itself. It is like nothing
