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RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1999 (RBS): Rare Book School is pleased to announce its
schedule of courses for the summer of 1999, consisting of 27 five-day,
non-credit courses on topics concerning the history of books and printing,
manuscripts, and special collections, to be offered on the grounds of the
University of Virginia 12 July - 6 August. Tuition per course for the RBS
1999 Summer Session is $640. The complete brochure, expanded course
descriptions, and applications are available at our website:
<http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks>
Readers of ARLIS-L may find the courses featured below to be of particular
interest:
23. BOOK ILLUSTRATION TO 1890.
The identification of illustration processes and techniques, including
woodcut, etching, engraving, stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography,
wood engraving, steel engraving, process line and halftone relief,
collotype, photogravure, and color printing. The course will be taught
almost entirely from the extensive Book Arts Press files of examples of
illustration processes. As part of the course, students will make their own
etchings, dry-points, and relief cuts in supervised laboratory sessions.
Instructor: Terry Belanger.
TERRY BELANGER founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University. Since 1992, he
has been University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections
at the University of Virginia.
32. JAPANESE PRINTMAKING, 1615-1868.
A survey of Ukiyo-e, the art of the Japanese woodblock print. Ukiyo-e
literally means floating world art, 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 UVa's Bayly Museum. Instructor: Sandy Kita.
SANDY KITA Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at the University of
Maryland, is the author of the 1996 catalog, A Hidden Treasure: Japanese
Wood-block Prints in the James Austin Collection. His new book, The Last
Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e, is in the press.
Book Arts Press ph: 804/924-8851
114 Alderman Library fax: 804/924-8824
University of Virginia email: [log in to unmask]
Charlottesville, VA 22903 website: <http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks>
