tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17484936559062802932024-02-19T08:13:06.360-08:00Corcoran Book HistoryAn ongoing online project of Casey Smith's MA seminar, "The History of the Western Book," at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington DC, focusing on information, discussion, and debate about the history (and future) of scripted forms, especially the printed forms of the past five hundred years commonly referred to as books.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-68140385107416318362014-12-09T17:50:00.000-08:002014-12-09T17:50:23.016-08:00The Little Prince Meets Galileo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe there are other video games based on printing history? Maybe not? Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqgkrd2kx_E">Type: Rider</a>. This isn't the game itself, but a walk-through. It came out last year, so maybe it's old news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-63943095119662365642014-12-04T11:49:00.002-08:002014-12-04T11:49:25.421-08:00Online Course Evaluations<span style="font-size: large;">All students should complete the course evaluation found at this link: <a href="https://my.gwu.edu/login/?tourl=/mod/evaluations/default.cfm">online course evaluation</a>. The deadline is December 9, next Tuesday. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Send me an email message if you have questions: kcs@gwu.edu</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-15870217631051684382014-12-04T11:07:00.003-08:002014-12-04T11:07:45.022-08:00Heralds of Science on LibraryThing<a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/HeraldsOfScience/yourlibrary"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Want to learn more about one of the books we saw today? Consult <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/HeraldsOfScience/yourlibrary">The Dibner's Heralds of Science Collection</a> on LibraryThing. This is a pretty great resource.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-31914319798627180762014-12-04T07:12:00.004-08:002014-12-04T07:12:46.533-08:00Dibner Today!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a photograph from our recent waysgoose at the home/studio of Chris and Pat Manson and The Crooked Crow Press.<br />
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Join our merry band of printers, artists, collectors, historians, etc.<br />
If you're reading this and your're also a student, you should think about applying for a <a href="https://printinghistory.org/denker-fellow-application-2015/">Denker Fellowship</a>.<br />
Let me know if you have questions: kcs@gwu.eduUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-29081956517816670462014-11-20T10:45:00.000-08:002014-11-20T10:45:16.601-08:00Morris Lessmore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a poignant and even tear-inducing story of a man and his relationship to books: <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VljJIQuPDSE">The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read the film critically. What does it say about the future of the book and reading?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-63987120802417177192014-11-20T10:40:00.000-08:002014-11-20T10:40:03.312-08:00Yet More Future of the Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the commercial design and marketing firm IDEO: <a href="http://www.ideo.com/work/future-of-the-book">Three "Books" Instead of One</a>. Click on the videos if you can stand yet more prophecy on the portentous "Future of the Book". The videos were made back in the dark ages of 2010, an eternity ago when it comes to these discussions. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-79201134431493918412014-11-20T10:12:00.002-08:002014-11-20T10:15:26.133-08:00Say No to Nostalgia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Great stuff also on: <a href="http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog">if: Blog</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-32262149966200526492014-11-18T16:11:00.001-08:002014-11-18T16:21:17.957-08:00Between Page and Screen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a link to a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-JFxEmtpY">strange video</a> with horrible music. The text (textual body?) produced by "Between Page and Screen" seems more like an advertisement than poetry. But maybe we should think of the two as kin. Visual poetry and advertising quite obviously share an economy of language and attention. This history in America can be traced back to the middle decades of the 19th century (and perhaps earlier in Europe and South America). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was uncharitable of me to screengrab the glitch and post it (above). </span><span style="font-size: large;">As to the concept and execution of "Between Page and Screen," it feels entirely like an artist's book. I have "read"(?) the "book" (?) itself through all of its mediation via webcam. It is really "cool". I don't remember anything about the text or story, but my memory isn't so great. I remember the experience not the "content". </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ideally we want both, or we want to understand how the two converge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is often my experience with artist's books. Reading itself is far more nuanced and poetic than we conventionally believe it to be. Our varieties or modalities of reading greatly exceed those of writing. We are always reading (maybe even when we're asleep); we are not always writing (unless we think of reading as an act of inscription). This is a field of study that I'm looking forward to examining with students in next semester's seminar, "Texts & Readers".</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-62104864762185324492014-11-17T18:17:00.002-08:002014-11-17T18:17:29.989-08:00Historic E-Book Settlement<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The scene above is from a physical-book warehouse facility operated by Amazon. The news though is about e-books (which should be renamed "e-texts") and their distribution channels, profit sharing arrangements, etc. Read this article from today's <i>Christian Science Monitor</i>: <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2014/1117/Amazon-Hachette-reach-deal.-So-how-big-is-the-world-of-e-books">Amazon v. Hachette... and the winner is?</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-42315322805573878062014-11-17T17:12:00.000-08:002014-11-17T17:22:27.755-08:00Gutenberg = Fox Talbot = Edison = Jobs/Bezos = ? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">FOR THIS THURSDAY'S CLASS Please read Matthew Rubery's essay from <i>Book History, </i><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufal3audi8v66jd/16.rubery%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0">"Canned Literature: The Book After Edison."</a> I've decided to highlight this essay for our session this Thursday on the 21st century for fairly transparent and obvious reasons. In preparation for your final seminar paper, please note the style of Rubery's writing: <i>How he writes academic prose.</i> We'll talk about this in class on Thursday. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-5333590983117868982014-11-17T16:40:00.001-08:002014-11-17T16:40:08.239-08:00Out of the Academy & Into the Industry<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The quotation abovie is by Elizabeth Minkel. Here is her review of the <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2014/04/the-london-book-fair-many-tote-bags-but-few-industry-solutions.html">The 2014 London Book Fair</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-70900585499775383972014-11-17T15:59:00.000-08:002014-11-17T15:59:10.716-08:00Oh no! Not Another "Future of the Book" Argument/Debate/Rhapsody/Screed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our classmate Krista Sharp sent me a great online piece about the redesign of the Pelican logo by a young designer in London, Matt Young; here's the link: <a href="http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/november/pelican-books-online">Pelican Books Online</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found these animations on Matt Young's website. The first is from a series of short animations he made as a student. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/11891958">Matt Young's <i>Book vs E-book</i>, episode 3 (2010)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Times change... two years later working for Penguin: <a href="http://vimeo.com/41216491"><i>Books for Book Lovers</i> (2012)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While English and American printers and book designers were held in thrall to the aesthetics of the English Arts and Crafts Movement (essentially looking back), Russians and other Europeans were looking forward in radical ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2002/russian/">MoMA 2002 Exhibit: The Russian Avant-Garde Book</a> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-77846926535103124242014-11-13T12:02:00.001-08:002014-11-13T12:02:31.818-08:00Response to Mallarme<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For your brief assignment next week, please read Stephane Mallarme's essayistic poem (or perhaps poetic essay) and respond in your own creative literary fashion. You might choose to write it as a poem or as a memory or as a manifesto or as a story or as a conceptual piece or as something hard to classify. Your writing must be no longer than one side of one sheet of paper (typing preferred). We will share these in class next week. I'm looking forward to it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a link to Mallarme's essay: <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/excerpts/nothing-ever-happens/">"The Book: A Spiritual Instrument"</a>. You do not need to refer to Mallarme's essay in your writing and you do not have to use any other sources. You are free, however, to do both if by doing so fits the logic of your piece.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-35179387417493232672014-11-13T11:42:00.002-08:002014-11-13T11:45:11.752-08:00Carnegie Libraries<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Carnegie Libraries were uniquely influential not only in fostering American literacy but American culture at large. Scroll through this page of Google Image results to see the architectural shells of these libraries, many of them repurposed (in an age less congenial to the idea of knowledge for knowledge's sake). Libraries are much more than the buildings they're housed in: </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Carnegie+Libraries&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=600&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dgdlVJfCEYuhyQTL_ILABg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Xbvei_s9JbhctM%253A%3BcjCucjYfgdRqiM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F9%252F95%252F2008-0601-DC-CityMuseumCarnegieLibrary.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FHistorical_Society_of_Washington%252C_D.C.%3B2852%3B1664" style="font-size: x-large;">Carnegie Libraries</a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-69062792509843842852014-11-13T11:32:00.003-08:002014-11-13T11:32:49.029-08:00Printing at the Margins: an Ink-Stained History of Women and Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kathy Walkup's illustrated lecture at the San Francisco Public Library <a href="http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000494201" style="font-style: italic;">Printing at the Margins</a> dwells at great length on a subject that is too frequently glossed over: Women in the printing industries and allied trades. Who were they? What did they do? How were their labor conditions? How were they different? Why?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please prepare one (or two) questions that you would have asked Professor Walkup if you were present in the auditorium that night. I'll give you a few minutes to formulate your question when the screening ends (it's 55 m). I'll send some, but not all of the questions to her. We should have her responses by next class period.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-6989406608734160192014-11-13T09:43:00.002-08:002014-11-13T11:19:56.236-08:00Penguin Revolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">To the left is the cover image of the first Penguin book. Many articles and monographs have been written about the design of these books. Their influence cannot be underestimated. Penguin didn't only revolutionize the paperback in the first half of the twentieth century; it did it again in the second half with its leadership on what has come to be called the "trade-paperback" a paperback with better design, better paper, and better material packaging. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Early Penguins have become highly collectible. This is a great narrative about collecting Penguins: <a href="http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/02/08/the-first-hundred-penguin-books/">The First Hundred</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">An entire website, <a href="http://www.penguinfirsteditions.com/index.php?cat=main">Penguin First Editions</a>, will answer all of your Penguin questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From <i>Smithsonian Magazine:</i></span><br />
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-the-paperback-novel-changed-popular-literature-11893941/?no-ist" style="font-size: x-large;">Allen Lane: 20th Century Aldus</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the right is an image of the famous PENGUININCUBATOR. From this essay in <i><a href="http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/04/what-publishers-today-can-learn-from-allen-lane-fearlessness/">Publishing Perspectives</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the official Penguin Website:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.penguinbooks75.com/timeline.html">Timeline of Penguin's first 75 Years</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJukjWCULXk">75 Years of Penguins</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This weekend in lovely Silver Spring! Lots of Corcoran familiars and other friends in the world of books. A genuinely fun event for the whole family. I think there is a nominal admission fee, maybe the price of a movie. Details here: <a href="http://pyramidatlanticbookartsfair.org/">Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748493655906280293.post-83545495296897165252014-11-12T17:28:00.000-08:002014-11-12T17:47:09.308-08:00A Reasonable Argument<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Could it be that Washington, DC</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Has the world's two best libraries?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The Smithsonian Institution & the LC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Nothing truly rhymes with libraries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Excuse my doggerel poem. We're visiting the Dibner Collection at the Smithsonian NMAH on the second to last day of class, December 4, from 3:00 to 4:30. Details to follow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">PS: It is a reasonable argument: DC has probably the two most amazing encyclopedic libraries anywhere in the world. Think about the Smithsonian Institution Libraries as a single library over multiple sites. Think about the foresight of the Library of Congress to archive Twitter. Think about DC libraries not simply as collections but as hubs of knowledge generation. Above all, think about librarians and their initiative to provide access and help to all. To me, librarians are heroic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seven years after Henry Stevens published <i>Who Spoils Our New English Books?</i>, C.T. Jacobi's <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_0pAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22On+the+Making+and+Issuing+of+Books%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TapbVJK9C5CvyATL3YDIBA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">On the Making and Issuing of Books</a>, answered his question. During these years William Morris also came to an answer: there was no stand-alone book designer. The concept was just emerging.</span></div>
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