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As moderator of the joint ARLIS/NA-CAA session at the CAA conference in
Toronto, February 1998, I invite ARLIS/NA members who are also members of
CAA (College Art Association) or of the UAAC (Universities Art
Association of Canada) to propose papers on the topic described
below. Please contact me if you wish to discuss an idea.

The history of the book and the visual arts: contributions to "The History
of the Book" projects in Canada and the United States.

        A History of the Book project was recently launched in Canada, on
the heels of similar projects which have inspired special conferences and
periodical issues, and multi-volume publications in the United States and
several European countries.The U.S. project entitled A History of the Book
in America is based at the American Antiquarian Society, and in 1997 will
issue the first of five projected volumes.  It may seem that these
projects are essentially concerned with literature, bibliography, and
disciplines other than art, given the academic qualifications and
associations of most of the editors and authors. But in fact the current
projects are being presented by their organizers as interdisciplinary and
integrated, a change from the past when the history of the book was
largely served by narrow and mutually isolated lines of research.  The
book is being viewed as a vehicle of knowledge or inspiration, but also
under discussion is its physical form which can exercise influence and
attract aesthetic appreciation by its outward and inward  appearance.
Aspects of the visual arts in relation to the history of the book are
being emphatically addressed in proposal statements and publication
prospectuses for the U.S. project. A preliminary chapter outline lists
"The Book Crafts", e.g. type design and book design, binding and
papermaking; and "The Book as Artifact." Besides the book arts, there are
other aspects of the history of the book which art historians and
bibliographers might address: a single book or title or precious book':
its significance, influence, role as a manifesto, or aesthetic qualities;
all aspects of graphic design, illustration, and the use of reproductions
in relation to text; art bibliography; special art publication formats
such as artists' books, livres d'artiste, catalogues raisonns, exhibition
catalogues and exhibition announcements, manuals, pattern books,
photographic albums and portfolios.  "History of the Book" projects have
universally  adopted a broad interpretation of the term "book" to include
all printed materials such as periodicals, newspapers, broadsides and
printed ephemera.
        For this joint session in Toronto of the Art Libraries Society of
North America (ARLIS/NA) and CAA, Canadian and U.S. art historians,
bibliographers, visual resource curators and art librarians are invited to
propose topics for papers that would feed directly or indirectly  into the
Canadian or U.S. "History of the book" projects. The official multivolume
works currently in the planning stages are not intended by their editors
to be "the last word." Rather, they hope that publication will stimulate
further research into how national culture can be understood through an
examination of the mediating role of print.


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    Mary Williamson, Fine Arts Bibliographer and Senior Librarian,
                      York University (retired);
           Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Dept. of Art History.
           email: [log in to unmask] *** fax: (416) 484-0345