Print Culture and the Modern World

Print Culture and the Modern World Fig. – Book making before the age of print, from Akhlaq-i-Nasiri , . This is a royal workshop in the sixteenth century, much before printing began in India. You can see the text being dictated, written and illustrated. The art of writing and illustrating by hand was important in the age before print. Think about what happened to these forms of art with the coming of printing machines.