Book of the Week – The Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown…

14 Monday Sep 2015

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The Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown…
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
London: Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome, 1686
First collected edition
PR3327 A1 1686

Sir Thomas Browne took up a suggestion made by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in his Advancement of Learning that there should be a list compiled of erroneous beliefs in the fields of natural sciences and general knowledge. Browne, a tireless observer, used a combination of authoritative testimonies, reason, and experimentation in an attempt to dispose of hundreds of current common fallacies.

One of the most fantastic of Browne’s studies is in part 3 of Works, “Urn-Burial: Together with the Garden of Cyrus.” Browne begins with the Garden of Eden and traces the history of horticulture down to the time of the Persian King Cyrus. The king is credited with having been the first to plant trees in a quincunx, a distinctive spatial arrangement of five objects. Browne claimed to have discovered that this quincuncial arrangement also appeared in the hanging gardens of Babylon, leading him into a discussion about the mystical qualities of the number five.

And so science goes.

Thank you, Anonymous!

11 Friday Sep 2015

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A generous donation from Anonymous adds to our growing collection of material documenting the 1960s.

The Words of Ugo Betti. Innocence and the Process of Justification in the Late Plays…
Los Angeles: Immaculate Heart College Press, 1965

Ugo Betti (1892-1953) was an Italian judge and poet. He is considered by some to be the greatest Italian playwright since Pirandello. He wrote his first poems while a soldier in German captivity (1917-18). They were published as Il Re Pendieroso in 1922. After the success of his first play, La Padrona, he worked exclusively in theater, for which he wrote twenty-seven plays.

Illustrated with eight serigraphs by Sister Mary Corita (born Frances Elizabeth Kent) (1918-1986), a Roman Catholic nun and educator who worked with silkscreen — incorporating scriptural quotation, excerpts from well-known authors such as e.e. cummings and Albert Camus, song lyrics, and grocery store signs into her art. Kent belonged to the order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. While teaching at Immaculate Heart College her students included John Cage and Alfred Hitchcock. Her work, focused on the themes of love and peace, were popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. One of her best known works is “Love Your Brother,” a 1969 piece that features photographs of Martin Luther King overlaid with words in her handwritings. She is famous for her 1985 “Love” stamp.

Sister Mary said, “I really love the look of letters – the letters themselves become a kind of subject matter even apart from their meaning – like apples or oranges are for artists.”

Printed on Curtis all-rag paper at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Edition of two hundred and seventy-five copies.

The Plantin Press, a small private press, was begun in 1931 by Saul and Lilian Marks. Saul Marks learned the printing trade in Poland during WWI. He emigrated to the United States in 1921, where he met and married Lilian Simon. The Marks’ moved to Los Angeles in 1930 and set up shop in the midst of the Great Depression. Lilian Marks continued the press after Saul died in 1974, until she sold the business in 1985.

The donation included a catalog accompanying the exhibition, “Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent,” curated by Ian Berry and Michael Duncan, which traveled to museums in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California between 2013 and 2015.

Someday is Now: the Art of Corita Kent
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
DelMonico Books, Prestel: Munich, London, New York, 2013

We recommend – Black, White and Mormon

10 Thursday Sep 2015

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Black, White and Mormon
Tuesday, September 8 – Thursday, October 29
J. Willard Marriott Library, Level 1, The University of Utah

From W. Paul Reeve’s Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Oxford University Press, 2015), illustrations from political cartoons of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries highlighting two themes: polygamy as the racial corruption of the white family and polygamy as slavery.

Dr. Reeve’s thesis is that outsiders projected their own fears of race mixing onto the Mormons. In their minds, polygamy was not merely destroying the traditional family, it was destroying the white race.

Several illustrations used by Dr. Reeve come from the Rare Books holdings.

Rare Books Goes to Southern Utah University

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Ten books from Rare Books are part of an exhibition at the Braithewaite Fine Arts Gallery at Southern Utah University.

ABC: Assemblage, Book Art, Collage
September 10 through November 7, 2015
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7PM

A vibrant variation on the alphabet, ABC highlights book arts. The artists’ books on loan from Rare Books are displayed in SUU’s Gerald R. Sherratt Library.

The exhibition was co-curated by Sue Cotter, Deborah K. Snider, and Jonathan Talbot.

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On loan from Rare Books are:
A Guide to Higher Learning by Julie Chen, 2009
Wild Girls Redux: An Operator’s Manual by Ellen Knudsen, 2009
Local Conditions: One Hundred Views of Mount Rainier (At Least) by Chandler O’Leary, 2010
The Solutions to Brian’s Problem by Bonnie Jo Campbell, 2011
Interior Landscape by Lyall F. Harris, 2011
A Pop-Up Field Guide to North American Wildflowers by Shawn Sheehy, 2011
Falling Shutters by Susan T. Viguers, 2012
Love in the Time of War by Yusef Komunyakaa, 2013
Capturing Orbs in the Night Sky by Mary C. Leto, 2013
Honey B Hive by Jessica Spring, 2013

Rare Books goes downstairs!

04 Friday Sep 2015

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Rare Books joins forces with the Book Arts Program and the Katherine W. Dumke Fine Arts & Architecture Library to curate an exhibition of the J. Willard Marriott Library’s holdings from the Women’s Studio Workshop.

Friday, September 4 through Saturday, November 25
Level 1 atrium, Level 1 wall cases
J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah
Curators: Crane Giamo, Ian Godfrey, Luke Leither, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Luise Poulton, Emily Tipps

Committed to developing an alternative space for artists to create new work and share skills, Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara Leoff Burge founded the Women’s Studio Workshop in 1974. Public programming included a regular workshop series, as well as special programs that featured the work of women artists. The intention was to exhibit the work of women artists as well as provide professional experiences for the artists themselves.

Still going strong, Women’s Studio Workshop is housed in a historic building located in the foothills of the Hudson Valley’s Shawangunk Mountains. Artists can take workshops, rent the studios, schedule private instruction, or apply for artist residencies.

Rare Books featured work from the Women’s Studio Workshop in its 2009 exhibition, “The Feminine Touch: Women and the Work of the Book.”

Queen of Wands: a paper sculpture
Susan Elizabeth King (b. 1947)
Rosendale, NY: Women’s Studio Workshop; Santa Monica, CA: Paradise Press, 1993
N7433.4.K5 Q84 1993

Issued in clear plastic envelope with seal bearing title and author. Two cards are enclosed which bear publication information and instructions for operating. Paper construction uses the tetra-tetraflexagon form. Printed offset by Paul Muhly.

Truly Bone: poems
Hilda Raz
Rosendale, NY: Women’s Studio Workshop; Lincoln, NE: Blue Heron Press, 1998
PS3568 A97 T78 1998

Two attached sheets, folded accordion style into twenty pages attached front and back to tan-colored endpapers. Sheets and endpapers are within tan and beige-colored wrappers with flaps. Text is letterpress printed in black typeface. The type is Romulus 11 point. Images are etching, aquatint spit bite, and drypoint from multiple copper plates using sixteen colors. The paper is cream Italian Alcantara. The production of this book was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Research Council, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Book production by Karen Kunc with the help of interns Ryan Ninete and Lynda Sock. Edition of fifty copies, signed by the poet and Karen Kunc. University of Utah copy is no. 47.

Shared Memories
Lori Spencer
New York: Women’s Studio Workshop, 1998
N7433.4.S691 S53 1998

Short prose pieces on a simple pop-up structure. Illustrated with photographic images. Handbound and issued in paper slipcase. Edition of 90 copies. University of Utah copy is no. 30, signed by author.

A Book of Myths and Fates
Nancy W. Diessner
N7433.4.D535 B6 2001

New York?: Women’s Studio Workshop, 2001
Inspired by three characters in Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex. The Oracle, Jocasta, and Oedipus correspond respectively to the spiritual, sensual and intellectual elements of the human experience. Three sections illustrate each state. In each section, the pages fold out from a central pair of black and white images. Digitally printed. Bound with a soft, wrap-around cover. Edition of eighty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 26.

Rare Books Exhibition – SHHHHHH!

03 Thursday Sep 2015

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September 9, 2015 – November 1, 2015

SHHHHHH!

Curator: Luise Poulton

Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4
Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00–6:00; Saturday, 9:15–6:00

The exhibition is FREE and open to the public.

Rare Books presents books, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines that were banned, forbidden, censored, redacted, expurgated, published anonymously and otherwise attempted to be kept from public consumption. From religious and political writings to science, philosophy and poetry, these pieces of paper were deemed by some too dangerous to exist. On display are first editions of Galileo’s Dialogo (1632), Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651), Swift’s Travels (1726), Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye (1951) and others, too hot to handle hot off the press.

Book of the Week – Anything From Anywhere

31 Monday Aug 2015

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ANYTHING FROM ANYWHERE
Emily Tipps
Tuscaloosa, AL: High5 Press, 2009

Emily Tipps is the proprietor of High5 Press. She completed this project for her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Four parts bound in printed and illustrated paper wrappers, printed with the word “Any,” “Thing,” “From,” “Anywhere,” on the cover of parts 1-4 respectively. The four booklets are housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box. Explanation of the project, notes on the authors, and production information is printed on the lining papers of the box. Letterpress printed on paper made by hand at the Lost Arch Papermill. Text and illustrations printed from photopolymer plates, with the exception of the end sheets.

Book of the Week – Minuet from Quintet in E by Luigi Boccherini

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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MINUET FROM QUINTET IN E BY LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1990
N7433.4 J8 M5 1990

A music box in the form of a book, the mechanism inset in hollowed-out pages. The winding key protrudes from the back cover. Illustrated with bars of music. Covers are steel with copper patina.

Rare Books Welcomes U!

24 Monday Aug 2015

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[Dara Niketic and her mother salute the U, as brother Max looks on. Photograph by Novak Niketic.]

Dara Niketic (Randolph College, 2015) joins the University of Utah as a PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular and Evolutionary Biology. Her first experience on campus was a visit to Rare Books in August 2013, where she held our first editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and other great works from the past.

“It was amazing to be close to pieces of history that are so valuable to my field,” said Dara.

Rare Books invites all students, new and returning, to visit us in the Special Collections Reference Room,
find us online,
enjoy our online exhibitions,
view our collection of digitized books,
and follow our blog, Open Book,
for your own signature experience on the way to success in your field.

Book of the Week – Ozymandias

17 Monday Aug 2015

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OZYMANDIAS
Austin, TX: Erespin Press, 1984
DT88 O99 1984 oversize

Sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and excerpts from ancient and modern works about Egypt. Engraving of head of mummy of Ramses II (1303 BC – 1213 BC) by Henry Wolf. Researched, designed and printed by Carol Kent. Printed on an 1840 Wood & Sharwood Albion. Set in Roulus with Cochin numerals. Printed on dampened cream-colored Rives Heavyweight with Arches Cover portfolio. Issued in cream-colored portfolio embossed with two cartouches and fastened with a beeswax seal on Egyptian papyrus strip, affixed with braided French perle and lacquered copper wire. Edition of one hundred copies. University of Utah copy gift of Gene Valentine.

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