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Book Design
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Bloomsbury: Books, Art and Design 
 This online exhibit explores the artistic activity of the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers. Members included artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. The site features portraits, designs by the group's Omega Workshops, and Hogarth Press dust jackets, such as those created by Bell for works by her sister Virginia Woolf. From the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/bloomsbury/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 21, 2006 Building With Books
This site offers an alternative for disposing of undesirable books: build them into furniture. The site documents the exhibition of lamps, umbrella stands, picture frames, and related objects, along with "photographs of the process, [and] publicity posters." The project was the result of a classroom and library collaboration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/bookbuild/art.html Topics: Crafts, Environment, Home & Housing, Librarianship, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Technology Last updated Jul 11, 2007 Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
American artist Elihu Vedder was one of the many artists captivated by Edward FitzGerald's translation of the "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám." Houghton Mifflin's 1884 publication of the work with Vedder's illustrations, one of the most successful editions of the work, is reproduced here. There is also a brief biography of Vedder and an essay on the work. http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/vedder/ Topics: Artists, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Nov 8, 2004 Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department: Book of the Month
Collection of illustrated essays about historic and rare editions of books such as Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language," Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," and Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Includes monthly selections back to mid-1999. From the Glasgow University (Scotland) Library Special Collections Department. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/current.html Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Dec 4, 2007 Hand Bookbindings: From Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
Companion site to an exhibition on the "craft and art of binding books by hand" that ran in 2002-2003 at the Princeton University Library. Browse images of more than 200 books by categories such as endleaves, endbands, edge decoration, clasps and closures, gold tooling, and embroidered binding. Many of the sections include historical notes. http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 16, 2005 Judging A Book By Its Cover: Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
An exhibit of English and American 19th century book covers with gold-stamping, a process that "brought to the mass-produced book some of the prestige associated with gold-tooled leather bindings of the pre-industrial era." Browsable by topic (vignettes, traditional designs, classical motifs, coats of arms, Wild West, travel books, designer bindings). Also features a gallery of selected book spines. From New York's Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Libraries & Archives by Type, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Literature Reimagined
This exhibit "offers multiple editions of popular literary works, focusing on the ways in which they have been reinterpreted over time." Some of the works examined include "Beowulf," John Milton's "Paradise Lost," Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," James Joyce's "Ulysses," and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Curated by librarian Iris R. Snyder of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections. http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/text/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Dec 4, 2007 Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
Devoted to the Russian artist. Features a chronology of Lissitzky's life, and images of his work in typography, book design, exhibition design, and photography. From the Getty Research Institute. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/lissitzky/ Topics: Artists, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated May 22, 2005 Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books From University of California Collections, 1550–1990
An online version of an exhibition catalog. Contains essay focusing on the history and tradition of children's publishing; movable and pop-up books, toys and games; 19th-century illustrators; and 20th-century technology used in illustrating children's books. Features over 30 illustrations, checklist of works, and selected bibliography. From the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/childhood/ Topics: California: Arts and Humanities, California: Education, California: Libraries & Archives by Type, Children's Literature, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 5, 2004 The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934
Includes images of over 100 books created by Russian avant-garde writers and artists, including schools of Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Rayism, Neo-primitivism, and zaum; and books featuring innovative use of typography and themes of Judaica. See the "Book Index" for a complete list of titles, browsable by author/artist, publisher, and year of publication. From the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/russian/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated Nov 21, 2004 Teaching Gutenberg
This site explores two topics related to the Gutenberg Bible at the University of Texas. The "Invention" section explores Johann Gutenberg's creation of the first book printed with movable type, and "Books Before and After Gutenberg" considers the development of written materials from clay tablets to facts about modern printing. Includes images, lesson plans, and a glossary. From the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/educator/modules/gutenberg/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Religion Last updated Jan 16, 2008 Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders & Book Designers
This exhibit documents how "women have been involved in printing and the making of books ever since these crafts were first developed." Offers a brief introduction about women in book printing from the 15th through 20th centuries and four ways to browse the collection: by image (the "thumbnail gallery"), name, occupation, and date. From Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection. http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/ Topics: History, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Women Last updated Jan 31, 2007 |
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