The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, is please to announce the opening of a new exhibition:

Not Pop-ups: The Other Illustrated Books, Ephemera, and Graphic Designs of Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992): May 20-Oct. 8, 2007.

Please visit the exhibit’s digital image database at:

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/kubasta.html

Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992), paper engineer and graphic artist, lived and worked in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is best known for his wildly inventive pop-up books but was also an accomplished book illustrator and graphic designer. Although artistic and intellectual freedoms were rigorously controlled and restricted in Communist Czechoslovakia, he flourished within the limits set by the government and succeeded in becoming one of the twentieth century’s most gifted and prolific book illustrators. In addition to numerous commercial designs, it is estimated that he was responsible for creating over three-hundred books and that millions of copies in numerous languages were published and distributed throughout the world.

 

James (Jim) A. Findlay

Bienes Museum of the Modern Book

The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library     

Broward County Main Library

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Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

 

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Current Exhibition:

Not Pop-ups: The Other Illustrated Books, Ephemera, and Graphic Designs of Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992

May 20-October 8, 2007

 

Please visit the virtual exhibition at:

 

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/Kubasta.html