Symposium:

 "Canons and Contingence: Art Histories of the Book in England and America"

The University of Massachusetts Amherst, in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Scholars in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School is delighted to announce the forthcoming symposium:

 "Canons and Contingence: Art Histories of the Book in England and America." 
Pre-registration for this (free!) event is now open! 

http://www.canonsandcontingence.com



Details are still being added to the website, but please do put this in your calendar and check back for updates.



Description


Recent scholarship in bibliography and the history of the book has attended to the ways in which bibliographic media resist, defy, and elude uniformity, even under the greatest technological pressures to conform. Whether through variables in the production process or through the vagaries of transmission and consumption, each manuscript or printed book carries with it the traces of a unique history. Yet bibliographers and historians of the book have long neglected the role of the visual in these histories, perceiving the pictorial as supplemental to the book, an import from some other medium. At the same time, the book itself has never featured in art history’s triumvirate of media: painting, sculpture, and architecture. In the belief that the book itself is an important medium in the history of art, this symposium brings together scholars who explore how the visual and pictorial features of bibliographic media behave (and can be made to behave) in defiant ways.



Speakers


Radiclani Clytus, Columbia University


Michael Gaudio, University of Missouri


Aden Kumler, University of Chicago


Phillip Round, University of Iowa

Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland


Juliet Sperling, University of Pennsylvania

And don't forget to pre-register!

http://www.canonsandcontingence.com/register/