The artist’s book Sea Air by Susan Allix is an excellent example of the book as a container. Sea Air the book contains sea air the thing through its selection and combination of materials. Further, in rejecting ideals that manuscripts and typical books take for granted, Sea Air facilitates engagement with the hidden decisions in every object.
Category: Graduate
Blog posts written by graduate students
It’s funny how the earth never opens up and swallows you when you want it to. Xander Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Nothing says “Hello, Hellmouth”…
“Welcome to the Renaissance Where our printing press has the fancy fonts, That’s right we’re fancy, and very literary, theatrical too…” “Welcome to the Renaissance,”…
Co-authored by Kristina Going and Katherine Haire with Kara Krewer and Ceciley Pangburn As young, naive English majors fresh from our codicology lessons, we approached…
As the Fall 2018 semester comes to a close and we look back at the work our team has accomplished, I think the biggest takeaway…
The Hargrett Hours’s French prayer that runs from folios 54r through 55v (and which I will refer to as “Tres piteux sire”) has been one…
Welcome to the strangeness of Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS W.441! A few things set this manuscript apart from the everyday Book of Hours. For one,…
The Walters MS W.172 of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is a seemingly average Book of Hours at first glance. Most Books of…
The Carrying of the Cross, Egerton MS 1070, folio 124v A full facsimile of this Book of Hours, from which all images in this post…
Note: This post was co-authored by Mikaela LaFave and Katharine Lech. If you, our dear reader, have been following along, you’ll know that a group…