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Vesalius, Part 2 – Down to the Bones

09 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Down to the Bone PosterJuly 7 – October 5

Exhibition: Down to the Bones 

Curator: Luise Poulton

Location: Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4

Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00–6:00; Saturday, 9:00–6:00; Hours differ during University breaks and holidays.

The exhibition is FREE and open to the public.

De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was an exquisite piece of creativity that blended observation; organization of information, format, typography; and illustration into an integrated whole to accurately describe the human body. The intense collaboration between scientist, artist, and printer was unprecedented. Prior to the publication of this book, medical texts were mostly derived from the medieval Arabic medical tradition or from translations of the works of Classical authors, whose texts had been corrupted by translation and re-translation: from Greek into Syriac, Syriac into Arabic, Arabic into Latin. Renaissance Europe embraced the classical works of Hippocrates and the Greco-Roman Galen. Vesalius, however, chose to further his knowledge of human anatomy by studying human cadavers. From these studies, Vesalius formed his position that the validity of any hypothesis rested solely upon facts established by observational methodology. His work marked the beginnings of modern science.

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Artists’ Book Cornucopia V

21 Wednesday May 2014

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Artists’ Book Cornucopia is an annual exhibition held at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, Colorado each spring. Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah was the juror for this year’s exhibition.

“For Artists’ Book Cornucopia V, I looked for diversity of format, material and subject matter. I wanted a vision of the enormity and complexity of communication that can happen in books, old and new. Old formats restructured as new forms. Old texts remade and replete with new meanings. New or unusual materials combined with expected materials to push the notion of communication: tactility heightened, strengthening the experience of the message.”

Read Luise’s full remarks at abecedariangallery.com

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Join us! – ULA Annual Conference

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

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The Archives, Manuscripts & Special Collections (AMSC) Round Table is sponsoring a session at the Utah Library Association Annual Conference.

Thursday, May 1
4PM-5PM
South Towne Expo Center
Sandy, UT

Scott Duval (Brigham Young University) hosts a panel session “Special Collections: The New Public Service,” cosponsored with the Academic Library Section. Other participants on the panel are Bradford Cole (Utah State University) and Luise Poulton (The University of Utah).

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Rare Books on Access Utah

05 Wednesday Mar 2014

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The Legacy of Ed Abbey on Access Utah

Luise Poulton, Managing Curator of Rare Books at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, joined Bob Lippman, (retired) environmental lawyer, activist and educator; Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City; and filmmaker ML Lincoln on Utah Public Radio’s Access Utah.

The group discussed Edward Abbey’s political philosophies, rooted in traditions of anarchism and civil disobedience; the rise of Earth First! out of Abbey’s writings; and “monkeywrenching” today, including Abbey’s influence on activists like Tim DeChristopher. A screening of ML Lincoln’s new film about Abbey and his legacy,“Wrenched,” shows in Salt Lake City on March 6th and an Abbey retrospective takes place in Moab on March 14th and 15th.

Listen on Utah Public Radio’s Access Utah

View the Rare Books’ online exhibition, “Brave Cowboy: An Edward Abbey Retrospective” 

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Call for Entries – Artists’ Book Cornucopia

07 Tuesday Jan 2014

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Artists’ Book Cornucopia is an annual juried exhibition held at Abecedarian Gallery each spring. The exhibition is open to any form of artists’ publication with the exception of self-published on-demand bookworks.

Regardless of the juror’s decision, all submissions are reviewed by gallery staff with an eye towards inclusion in future curated and invitational exhibitions.

A printable version of these guidelines can be downloaded as a PDF here.

For more information and to apply visit abecedarian gallery’s website.

Entries will be juried by Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Up to $1500 in purchase and exhibition awards will be awarded at gallery director’s discretion.

First prize is a solo show in Abecedarian Gallery’s Reading Room Spring 2015.

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Rare Books Exhibition – La Parola Scritta

13 Wednesday Nov 2013

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La Parola_columnNovember 8– December 13

Exhibition: La Parola Scritta

Curator: Luise Poulton

Location: Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4

Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00–6:00; Saturday, 9:00–6:00; Hours differ during University breaks and holidays.

The exhibition is FREE and open to the public.

Salt Lake Tribune – University of Utah class studies the Book of Mormon as literature

03 Thursday Oct 2013

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University of Utah students visit Rare Books to view and study early Mormon literature and contemporary material.

University of Utah class studies the Book of Mormon as literature

“‘The idea is, in a book way, to set the scene,’ said Luise Poulton, managing curator of the library’s rare books.”

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ULA Fall Workshop 2013

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Join us at the Utah Library Association’s Fall Workshop: “From Folklore to Technology.”
Luise Poulton and colleagues from the Utah Valley University Library and Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library discuss the many ways Utah’s academic libraries reach the community at large with their Special Collections. The panel discussion, “Explore, Enrich, Engage: Taking Special Collections and Rare Books to the Community,” begins at 1:30.

For more information go to: http://www.ula.org/content/program-ula-fall-workshop-2013

When: 27 September 2013
Where: Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University

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Rare Books Welcomes CBAA

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

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The Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library hosts the 2014 College Book Arts Association meeting with Print, Produce, Publish in January 2014.

The conference features a variety of events including member’s exhibition, invited speakers, panel presentations, studio demonstrations, roundtable discussions, vendor’s fair, Salt Lake City area tours, local exhibitions, student member portfolio reviews, members’ showcase, auction and Cornered – a folded-form exchange.

As part of the conference, the Rare Books Division offers two hands-on sessions of forty artists’ books selected from the rare book collections by Luise Poulton, on Thursday, January 2.

On Friday, January 3, Luise moderates the panel discussion, “Artists’ Book Collections and the Classroom.”

For more information and to register, please go to the conference webpage.

See you there!

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Mimeo Mimeo 8: Curator’s Choice

07 Friday Jun 2013

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Rare Books worked with the Book Arts Program to contribute to Mimeo Mimeo 8: Curator’s Choice. Mimeo Mimeo editors asked “librarians, publishers, poets, printers, book dealers, book collectors, and others bibliographically inclined” from around the country “to curate six pages of Mimeo Mimeo with six items from their personal or institutional collections.” Rare Books Managing Curator Luise Poulton joined Marnie Powers-Torrey, David Wolske, Emily Tipps (Book Arts Program faculty);  Prof. Craig Dworkin (Dept. of English, University of Utah); and Becky Thomas (graduate student, Dept. of English, University of Utah) as part of the “Utah posse” of contributors. Each chose one book from the rare book collections.

Luise wrote about Kenneth Patchen’s An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air, Waldport, OR: Untide Press, 1945 PS3531 A764 A77 1944

Marnie Powers-Torrey wrote about Bridget Elmer’s Fibre Libre, Tuscaloosa, AL: Flatbed Splendor, 2010 N7433.4 E545 F5 2010

David Wolske wrote about Rebecca Brown’s Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, Sedro-Wooley, WA: Grey Spider Press, 2001 RC265.6 B76 B76 2001

Emily Tipps wrote about Ruth Laxson’s A Hundred Years of: LEX FLEX, Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 2003 N7433.4 L39 H8 2003

Craig Dworkin wrote about Robert Grenier’s Sentences, Cambridge, MA: Whale Cloth Press, 1978 N7433.4 G797 S4 1978

Becky Thomas wrote about Jen Bervin’s The Desert, New York City: Granary Books, 2008 N7433.4 B47 D47 2008

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