Event Date: Mon, 10/21/2013 – 5:00pm Event Location: Room 754 of Schermerhorn Extension Event Sponsors: Department of Music, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Office of Government and Community Affairs Admission Charge: Free and Open to the Public ULYSSES KAY PROJECT@ Columbia University Presents: A […]
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Book History Colloquium: Panel on Handmade Books, Remade Genres
Rachel Feder, "Marginal Experiments" Ellen Gruber Garvey, "Repurposed Books" Karen Sánchez-Eppler, "Beyond the Press of History" October 10, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m. This panel brings together three scholars who work on 19th-century American and British handmade books. In “Marginal Experiments”, Rachel Fader will explore the […]
Book History Colloquium: “How to Read Books Doing Things in Imperial Rome”
Joseph Howley Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University September 26, 2013 (Thursday) Butler Library, Room 523 at 6:00 p.m. Between the Alexandrian aesthetics of the poetic book roll and the modern values of the industrially printed codex lies the world of the Roman book. This talk examines some uses of the material text in […]
RBML Exhibition— “Ernst Reichl: Wide Awake Typographer”
Kempner Gallery July 8 – September 13, 2013 The Rare Book and Manuscript Library is delighted to present a major exhibition of the work of Ernst Reichl (1900-1980), German-American book designer, active and prominent in New York/American publishing from the 1930s into the 1970s. A ‘whole book’ designer, Reichl believed in the harmonious totality of […]
Now Online: Jack Agüeros Papers, 1914-2012
Agüeros pictured in 1967, far right, then the deputy director of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project–the nation’s first Puerto Rican anti-poverty organization (Image credit: Agüeros Family) The papers document the life of Jack Agüeros, a Puerto Rican-American poet, community activist, translator, playwright, educator and a former director of El Museo del Barrio. The papers […]