For anyone who regards books as merely two-dimensional surfaces whose task it is to make texts available, this volume is an eye-opener. Spanning nearly six hundred pages with close to two hundred illustrations, the study presents the genre of the leporello—or accordion-book—in style, as well as breadth and depth. This is the first book-length treatment of leporellos, which are frequently acknowledged in passing and often included in exhibitions of artists’ books, library displays, or similar contexts but have rarely, if ever, been treated in sustained fashion (a few relevant titles are mentioned on page 14 of the introduction).
Christoph Benjamin Schulz has assembled a distinguished cast of experts that includes literary scholars, art historians, artists, curators, and scholars of musicology and education. Contributors hail from England, Poland, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the United States. The subtitle reflects the volume's trilingualism; of the nineteen chapters (by eighteen contributors),...
