[Wgcp-whc] Book Arts Conference, New Haven, CT April 2007 Update

[Nancy Kuhl]

The Yale University Library and the Whitney Humanities Center invite 
historians, literary scholars, artists, and book arts enthusiasts to 
participate in At the Turn of the Centuries: The Influence of Early 20th 
Century Book Arts on Contemporary Artists' Books, a conference to be held 
on April 13, 2007, on the campus of Yale University. A detailed description 
follows.

The concurrent afternoon sessions are currently filled.  Even if you are 
not able to register for the one-hour afternoon session, there are still 
many seats available for the morning lectures by Marcia Reed, Stephen Bury 
and Angela Lorenz.  We encourage you to sign up for the morning session, 
explore one of the museums or libraries of Yale in the afternoon, then join 
us for the closing reception.

Please consult our web site for further details:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/centuries/index.html

At the Turn of the Centuries: The Influence of Early 20th Century Book Arts 
on Contemporary Artists' Books

The Yale University Library, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Yale 
University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art invite 
historians, literary scholars, artists, and book arts enthusiasts to 
participate in At the Turn of the Centuries: The Influence of Early 20th 
Century Book Arts on Contemporary Artists' Books, a conference to be held 
on April 13, 2007, on the campus of Yale University.

Speakers will include Marcia Reed, Head of Collection Development, Getty 
Research Institute; Stephen Bury, Head of European and American 
Collections, British Library; and Angela Lorenz, acclaimed American book 
artist and book arts scholar. The conference will consider the work of 
various innovative and avant-garde artists and writers working in the years 
following the turn of the twentieth century, including the Dadaists and 
Surrealists, and its influence on post-war artists and writers, including 
those associated with OULIPO and Fluxus, and contemporary inheritors of 
these traditions in art, literature, and bookwork.

Additionally, the conference will highlight strengths of the Yale Arts of 
the Book Collection, the modern European and American collections at the 
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Prints, Drawings, and 
Photographs Department at the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Rare 
Books and Manuscripts Department at the Yale Center for British Art. At the 
Turn of the Centuries will also honor the late Tony Zwicker's life-long 
commitment to the inventive and original in modern and contemporary book arts.


Nancy Kuhl
Associate Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047