“Goodbye Gutenberg is truly a work of art, as well as being an informative and really captivating resource. I studied Art History in college, and none of the $100 coffee table books I was required to buy are half as useful and inspiring.”
Chel Micheline, graphic designer

A New Kind of Coffee Table Book
Goodbye Gutenberg takes you on a journey where no writer has ever taken you before. Valerie Kirschenbaum not only dreams of a Renaissance “the likes of which the world has never seen,” she gives you the actual blueprint. In warm and intimate prose, she shows you how and why we will experience this Renaissance in our lifetimes. The pages you will discover here combine the breathtaking beauty of illuminated manuscripts with today’s latest technologies to create a scintillating multisensory experience. Early reviewers have been astonished... sometimes even rendered speechless by these electrifying page designs.

 Plus A Rare and Exotic Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts…
Many of Which You Have Never Seen - Guaranteed
No matter how much of a collector or connoisseur you are, how much you have traveled around the world, how many galleries you have visited, you are guaranteed to see in Goodbye Gutenberg dozens, maybe even hundreds of images for the first time. Many of the book’s 860 gorgeous full color images are from exotic collections in India, Birma, Tibet, Indonesia, Nepal, Australia, Japan, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and South America. Still others are from more commonly known medieval European manuscript collections, but have never been presented to an American audience.

Among the hundreds of full-color spreads in Goodbye Gutenberg, you will enjoy:

• A thoroughly unique and dazzling survey of the greatest manuscripts of China, Japan, Maya, India, Nepal, Islam, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and most medieval European cultures
• An intimate exploration of the ideas and lives of such artists as Blake, Raphael and Rubens … plus full-color, high quality reproductions of many of their greatest paintings
• The energy and magic of the great calligraphers and how they used calligraphy to communicate with readers on multiple levels
• Mind-blowing page designs with hundreds of special effects never before seen in a book

Click on any of the thumbnails and see why early reviewers have been astonished by these imaginative designs, and why they have hailed Goodbye Gutenberg as the blueprint for the coming Renaissance in literature and the arts.

“I have been carrying Goodbye Gutenberg around in my backpack for almost a month now treasuring its pages, playing with its ideas and being fascinated by its gorgeous graphics.”
Dr. Daniel J. Maloney

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