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Some Readings by Buzz Spector, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University.
Thursday, February 7, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Special Collections, Memorial Library Reception to follow.
Buzz Spector is a compelling artist and teacher. His writings on art and reading are witty, penetrating, and moving. Spector’s work highlights the relationship between readers and text, and how the conjunction of mind and body is mediated by reading. According to Spector, ” We hardly know a book by looking at it, and when we truly ‘know’ it, the knowing is engaged and intimate – a ravishment.” Spector’s talk will cover his twenty years of work with books.
Sandboxes by William C. Bunce, Former Director of the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thursday, February 28, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Special Collections, Memorial Library Reception to follow.
William C. Bunce, former director of the Kohler Art Library, began acquiring artists’ books for the Kohler in the 1970s. He will talk about the origin of this fascinating collection and the deep relationships he developed over the years with these books and many of their makers. Co-curators of the exhibit, Lyn Korenic, current director or the Kohler Art Library, and Tracy Honn, director of the Silver Buckle Press, will be on hand to give a behind-the-scenes tour and show examples of artists’ books to handle and explore.
Form Follows Content: Books of Unusual Format from the Janus Press by Claire Van Vliet, Proprietor, Janus Press.
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Special Collections, Memorial Library Reception to follow.
Claire Van Vliet’s Janus Press has produced more than 100 titles since its formation in 1955. Van Vliet introduced book arts to UW-Madison printmaking students when she was a visiting artist in the mid-1960s. She had a profound influence on the Art Department’s graphics program, an impact that continues to this day. Internationally recognized for her work, in 1989 she won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as a “genius grant.”