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The art of the book : treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries / edited by Joseph R. Kopta ; managing editors: Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie, Emma P. Holter, Jackie Streker, and Rachel Vorsanger ; forewords by Susan E. Cahan and Joseph P. Lucia.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection Z4 .A785 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Temple University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections--Exhibitions.
- Temple University.
- Books--History--Exhibitions.
- Books.
- Temple University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections.
- History.
- Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- Philadelphia : Fireball Printing
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia PA : Tyler School of Art, Temple University, [2024]
- Summary:
- The exhibition The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, showcases a variety of artworks housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University’s Charles Library. Organized through a curatorial collaboration between graduate students from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the exhibition and catalogue examine how the format of the book has been treated across time and geography. A key question at the heart of this exhibition is, what constitutes a book? The diverse examples featured in this show challenge our preconceived notions and expand our definitions of this type of object. Melding illustration, painting, object-making, calligraphy, and storytelling, the objects featured in The Art of the Book transmit a robust sense of the time and place in which they were created. Many of these books function as repositories of memory that simultaneously reflect the values, history, and available technologies of the particular cultural moment in which they were created. The thematic groupings of these treasures display the variety of ways in which artists from across the globe have dealt with similar subject matter and content.
- Contents:
- The art of the book: an exercise in interdisciplinary collaboration / Bradford Davis, Ivy D'Agostino, Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie, Emma P. Holter, Robin Morris, and Rachel Vorsanger
- Introduction to the Special Collections Research Center / Kimberly Tully
- Embodied text and image: the codex in the Middle Ages and today / Joseph R. Kopta
- A look at a book
- Economics & labor / Emma P. Holter
- Before (the art of ) the book / Müge Durusu-Tanriöver
- Visualizing science / Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
- Printing in early modern Germany / Ashley D. West
- Embodied perspectives & identities / Rachel Vorsanger
- Sex ed: a love story-an interview on zines with James Rose Dewitt / Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
- Performance, music, visual arts / Daniel Cappello
- The artistic book / Amice M. Rudy Price
- Markinh tme / Emma P. Holter
- Paleography: the shape of writing / Mario Sassi
- An encounter with the Ottoman book / Özlem Yıldız
- Poetry, philosophy, & thinking / Robin Morris
- Manuscripts and the digital humanities: bridging the past and present / Dot Porter
- Dynamic book structures / Rachel Vorsanger
- Work for curioous people: an interview on artist books with Angela Lorenz / Robin Morris
- Problematic perceptions / Daniel Cappello and Ivy D'Agostino
- A vision for the future of manuscript curation and book history / Bryan C. Keene.
- Notes:
- This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries on view at Charles Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, from April 12 to July 15, 2024.
- With contributions by Daniel Cappello, MeiLi Carling, Ivy D’Agostino, Sophia Dell’Arciprete, James Rose Dewitt, Bradford Davis, Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie, Müge Durusu-Tanriöver, Emily Feyrer, Emma P. Holter, Bryan C. Keene, Angela Lorenz, Robin Morris, Dot Porter, Alice M. Rudy Price, Natalia Purchiaroni, Mike Ray, Mario Sassi, Jackie Streker, William Toney, Ha Tran, Kimberly Tully, Rachel Vorsanger, Ashley D. West, Byron Wolfe, Yaqeen Yamani, and Özlem Yıldız.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9798218383220
- OCLC:
- 1434081089
- Online:
- View the accompanying online exhibition.
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