You are cordially invited you to a lecture by
Johanna Drucker, Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, University of California
at Los Angeles
By the Book: Artist's Books in Teaching and Research
4:00 p.m., Friday, April 9, Moffett Auditorium (Room 050), Mudd Center
Followed by reception in Azariah’s Café
Johanna Drucker is an internationally known expert in book studies and author of The Century of
Artists’ Books, the first book-length study of artists’ books as a twentieth-century art form. Her
lecture highlights the opening events for the exhibition Show and Bestow: The Ruth Hughes
Collection of Artists’ Books, which is on view in Mudd Center and the Clarence Ward Art Library
from April 5 through June 4, 2010. There will be an open book hour in on the main level of Mudd
Center from 3-4 pm prior to Dr. Drucker’s lecture.
The Ruth Hughes Collection, which consists of 100 artists’ books by 79 book artists, has been
donated to the Oberlin College Library in honor of Ruth Hughes, Oberlin Class of 1985. Gifts to
the collection are primarily from the individual book artists.
For information about the collection and exhibition, including a PDF of the exhibition catalog, see:
http://www.oberlin.edu/library/exhibits/ruth_hughes/ruthhughes.html
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