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RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer 2003
Sessions, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning
rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special
collections to be held at the University of Virginia.
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and
Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details
about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School,
visit our Web site at
http://www.rarebookschool.org
Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School courses to
be of particular interest:
33. ARTISTS' BOOKS: STRATEGIES FOR COLLECTING. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 9-13)
The field of artists' books includes work that spans the full spectrum of
cultural objects, handmade originals, calligraphic and typographic
experimentation, conceptual productions, and works produced in the
traditions of fine printing and independent publishing. This course
provides critical and historical perspectives from which to conceive of a
collecting rationale for both individuals and institutions. Instructor:
Johanna Drucker.
JOHANNA DRUCKER became Robertson Professor of Media Studies at UVa in 1999;
she has also taught at Columbia, Yale, and SUNY Purchase. She has been
making artists' books for many years. Among her books are The Visible Word:
Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-23 (1994) and The Century of
Artists' Books (1995).
41. INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ILLUSTRATION. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY
7-11). This introductory course is a survey of the history of illustration
from medieval manuscripts to the contemporary book. Topics include: painted
and drawn illustrations before the advent of printing, early woodblock
printing (including blockbooks), German and Italian Renaissance
illustration, the Encyclopédie and other works of the French Enlightenment,
children's books, the private press movement, the period of l'Art nouveau,
and the use of photography in book illustration, among other subjects.
Instructor: Alan Fern.
ALAN FERN retired in 2000 after 18 years as director of the National
Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, before which he
was Chief of the Prints and Photographs Division (and later Director for
Special Collections) at the Library of Congress. He has published and
lectured widely on various topics in the graphic arts, including the
history of the poster, the Art Nouveau, the history of photography,
American portraiture, and the work of such 20th century artists as Leonard
Baskin, Fritz Eichenberg, Maurizio Lasansky, and Arnold Newman.
73. JAPANESE PRINTMAKING, 1615-1868. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 4-8). A survey
of Ukiyo-e, the art of the Japanese woodblock print. Ukiyo-e literally
means "floating art world," and it is through an exploration of the
Floating World that produced this art that we come to understand it. The
course considers how the Floating World developed in the c17 out of the
earlier court culture, how it created an interest in the courtesans,
actors, and famous places of Japan that became the chief subject-matter of
c17-c19 printmakers, and how it declined and changed in the late c19. The
course will take advantage of the extensive collection of Japanese prints
owned by the University of Virginia Art Museum. Instructor: Sandy Kita.
SANDY KITA is Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at the University of
Maryland, and is the author of A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Woodblock Prints
in the James Austin Collection (1996) and The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi
Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e (1999).
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