- Instructor: Joseph Black
- Instructor: Barbara Blumenthal
- Instructor: Elisa Lanzi
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Will books as material objects disappear in your lifetime? Or will the book, a remarkably long-lived piece of communication technology, continue to flourish and develop alongside its electronic counterparts? This course surveys the history of books from the ancient world through medieval manuscripts, hand press books, and machine press books to the digital media of today. We discover how books were made, read, circulated and used in different eras, and explore the role they have played over time in social, political, scientific and cultural change. The course involves extensive hands-on work with books and manuscripts from across the centuries and sustained engagement with current debates about book, print and media culture. Admission limited to 20 by permission of the instructor.
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- Instructor: Karen Kukil
- Instructor: James Wald
- Instructor: Anna Lee
- Instructor: Clara Barnhart
This course (which
is, I think, unique in a liberal arts college curriculum) is a survey of the
genre of artist’s books from its beginnings in the political and artistic
avant-garde movements of Europe at the turn of the 20th century through
contemporary American conceptual bookworks. In particular, the course will
examine the varieties of form and expression used by book artists and the
relationships between these artists and the socio-cultural, literary, and
graphic environments from which they emerged. Along the way we will also
explore the relationship of the artists book to other genres of artistic
expression, including sculpture, architecture, conceptual art, and performance
art. In so doing I hope to help you to develop critical skills – that is, how
to look at, describe, and talk about complex works of art – and to interact
with them on several levels.
- Instructor: Martin Antonetti
- Instructor: Anna Helgeson
- Instructor: Emma Silverman