The Art of the Book Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries |
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| Editor:
| Kopta, Joseph R. |
| Author:
| Kopta, Joseph R. |
| Contribution by:
| Tully, Kimberly
Donefer-Hickie, Ana Matisse
Holter, Emma P.
Streker, Jackie
Vorsanger, Rachel
Cappello, Daniel
Carling, MeiLi
D'Agostino, Ivy
Davis, Bradford
Durusu-Tanr¿över, Mu¿ge
Keene, Bryan C.
Morris, Robin
Porter, Dot
Price, Alice M. Rudy
Ray, Mike
Sassi, Mario
Tran, Ha
West, Ashley D.
Wolfe, Byron
Y¿ld¿z, Özlem |
| Associate Editor:
| Donefer-Hickie, Ana Matisse
Holter, Emma P.
Streker, Jackie
Vorsanger, Rachel |
| Designed by:
| Carling, MeiLi
Feyrer, Emily
Ray, Mike
Tran, Ha |
| Photographer:
| Dell'Arciprete, Sophia
Purchiaroni, Natalia
Toney, William
Yamani, Yaqeen |
| Interviewee:
| Rose Dewitt, James
Lorenz, Angela |
| Foreword by:
| Cahan, Susan E.
Lucia, Joseph |
| ISBN: | 979-8-218-38322-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Tyler School of Art and Architecture
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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The Art of the Book: Treasures from Special Collections showcases a variety of artworks housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University's Charles Library. Organized through a curatorial collaboration between graduate students from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the exhibition and this catalogue examine how the format of the book has been treated across time and geography. A key question at the heart of this exhibition is, what constitutes a book? The...
More DescriptionThe Art of the Book: Treasures from Special Collections showcases a variety of artworks housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University's Charles Library. Organized through a curatorial collaboration between graduate students from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the exhibition and this catalogue examine how the format of the book has been treated across time and geography. A key question at the heart of this exhibition is, what constitutes a book? The diverse examples featured in this show challenge our preconceived notions and expand our definitions of this type of object. Melding illustration, painting, object-making, calligraphy, and storytelling, the objects featured in The Art of the Book transmit a robust sense of the time and place in which they were created. Many of these books function as repositories of memory that simultaneously reflect the values, history, and available technologies of the particular cultural moment in which they were created. The thematic groupings of these treasures display the variety of ways in which artists from across the globe have dealt with similar subject matter and content. The essays in this catalogue endeavor to unveil the hidden histories and complicated entanglements behind each of the objects on display.