The Art of the Book: Memory
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2016 · Education
Rebekah Smith, Vanderbilt University April 25, 2016 Rebekah Smith, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class at Vanderbilt University, discusses the role of memory as envisioned in medieval texts and contemporary artists’ books. Smith tells us why she selected each object, what they mean to her, and why the class project was particularly meaningful to her. Because our memories are frustratingly intangible and fleeting, we long to associate them with physical objects in hopes of preventing them from fading. In the examples she selected, artists seek to preserve the conclusions of a scholar, commemorate an event, and sanctify a place. http://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/exhibits/show/hart2288-exhibition/medieval-modern/memory Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.
