The Arts of the Book Collection of the Arts Library at Yale has acquired
the archive of Richard Minsky, a critically acclaimed artist whose
innovative use of materials and pioneering techniques have contributed to
the expanding field of the book arts for over 30 years.
Minsky has said he views his approach to art as the meeting of "material
and metaphor" where the binding represents the ideas contained inside. In
Minsky's hands, the well-known cliché becomes untrue: a book can be judged
by its cover.
Examples of Minsky's work are held in major museum and library collections
worldwide, including The Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, and The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as well as the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, and the McMillan Library, Nairobi.
Dedicated to promoting the book arts in education, Minsky lectures actively
and conducts workshops in the United States and around the world. He is
also the founder of the renowned Center for Book Arts in New York City
organization, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
The Richard Minsky Archive at Yale provides an overview of the artist's
creative process and participation in the book arts community. Holdings
range from the artist's first experiments with letterpress printing as a
teenager to the sketches and maquettes for recent one-of-a-kind binding
commissions. The archive also includes correspondence as well as
holographic manuscripts and early versions of select works. It documents
Minsky's exploration of printing technologies over 45 years from the
mimeograph and spirit duplicator to his early use of inkjet printing on
handmade paper.
While the archive will not be made public until processing is finished, a
complete set of Minsky's editioned work (non-commissioned work made in
multiple copies) is currently available in the Arts of the Book Collection
reading room, located in the Sterling Memorial Library. More information
about Minsky and his work is available online at
<http://www.minsky.com>www.minsky.com. For more information about the
Minsky Archive and the Arts of the Book Collection, contact Jae Rossman at
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The Arts Library at Yale consists of five operating units: Art and
Architecture, Arts of the Book, Classics, Drama and Visual Resources.
Together, the Arts Library supports the arts area programs at Yale,
including the Schools of Architecture, Art and Drama, and the Departments
of Classics and the History of Art, as well as the teaching and research
needs of the Yale community outside the arts.
This press release is also available online at:
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n14/story13.html
Jae Jennifer Rossman
Special Collections Librarian, Arts Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/art/
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