History of Book Arts:
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Wednesday, 2:30-5:20
Course
description: This course will examine how the definition of the book is
changing to fit into today’s information age. Students will study the history of
the book from the illuminated manuscripts of the Medieval era to the
virtually-obtained information readable on the World Wide Web, touching on the
technological and cultural developments in between. This (Liberal Arts) section
of the class will focus on the historical and philosophical issues that pertain
to bookmaking, communication, and artists’ uses of the book-related industries.
Book arts in the News:
NEW! Blake Archive puts William
Blake books online!
NEW! UMKC's
interactive Gregorian Chant manuscript site
NEW! Online show
The Press of the Text features 20th century artists' books
Pulitzer
prize-winning novelist pens series of graphic novels
History of
artists' books addressed in Discovering the Artist's Book
Gutenberg Digital project digitzes the Gutenberg Bible
Promoting and teaching book history
through the Book Arts Web
The Center for Book Arts: Teaching
and exhibiting since 1974
Online
exhibitions of book arts from MoMA's Prints and Illustrated Books site