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Social
Science 155T
Monday, Wednesday, 10:30-11:50
FPH 107
plus Lab/Workshop,
Friday, 9:00-12:00
(location varies)
Jim Wald, 559.5592
Off. Hrs. G-15 FPH (sign-up)
Mon., Thurs., 12:00-2:00
Wed. 12:00-1:00
(and by appointment)
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syllabus
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Are
you intimdated at the prospect of trying to create a "book"?
There's no need to be—as the following examples will
demonstrate.
examples
of work from our class
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printing shop on the fourth floor of the Fine
Arts Center, University of Massachusetts:
book artist Amaryllis Siniossoglou teaches
students of all ages
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samples
from workshops taught by Amaryllis Siniossoglou
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book was created by a ten-year-old in one afternoon
(accordion book with monotype on cover, 4 pockets
and 4 monotypes inside) |
this
broadside (with text by Chaucer) was produced
by two graduate students over a period of several
weeks (they set the type, carved the images, and
printed the sheet themselves) |
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now
just imagine what you can do!
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students
work on their book projects
getting
started: artists' books and papermaking
old
and new technologies: letterpress
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tedious task of composition:
setting type by hand, with some modern conveniences
(Moxon didn't say anything about a Diskman and headphones) |
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old
and new technologies: printing images with photopolymer
plates
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a
sample of the wide variety of student
book projects
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Hanson's edition of Joseph
Moxon's seventeenth-century descriptions of life
in a printing shop, as found in a ninenteenth-century
compilation |
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Barnett's edition of Pico della Mirandola's Oration
on the Dignity of Man |
a
modern take on the old: Melissa
Batalin's selection of Andrew Marvell's poetry |
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Colin
Urbina devised an unusual and ambitious project
that satisfied the project requirements for
both this course and Daniel Kelm's studio
class on "Alchemy and the Artist's Book."
These examples of writing in india ink on
artist's canvas represent texts produced by
an imaginary society that he has been creating
for several years.
Colin developed two alphabets, one equivalent
to English, with about 22 characters, and
an older one, with about 49 characters. He
envisioned himself as a scribe named Karets,
entrusted with recording the history of his
people. The project thus came to be known
as "Motam aj Karets," or "The
Scrolls of Karets." Colin produced three
scrolls, each approximately four feet in length.
The first listed "Gods," the second,
"Peoples." The third offered a brief
"History" of the other two subjects.
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