His harbinger of mixed-media publishing’s future evolution is a hybrid of ingeniously animated philosophical debate, art appreciation, experimental graphics and dramatization. It comes pressed between cardboard covers, titled Four Jews on Parnassus, and fitted with a pocket holding a CD compilation of clips from musical tributes by five composers to a single painting by Paul Klee.
We will call the result simply a book for shorthand. The right-sounding term for it has yet to be invented. It is not available as an e-book, even though at least half the images in it – as intrinsic to its purposes as the pictures John Berger chose for Ways of Seeing were to his – are feats of larky digital tinkering. It is pirate-proof: its luscious glossy pages and Rolls Royce-grade colour printing make knock-offs (or certainly, cheap ones) inconceivable.![]()
