Making an Impression: The Book’s Trajectory from the Printing Press to a Private Collection
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2016 · Education
- Bonnie Griffin, Dept of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University - April 2016 - The Encyclopédie exhibits the processes of the moveable type of a printing press. One book talks about assembling an excellent collection of books, another contains several books bound together, and another reflects upon and defines the meaning of literature of the century. Book-making, printing, and reading were intimate, hands-on processes. Bonnie Griffin examines the physical composition/materiality of eighteenth-century books in the Morris Wachs Collection. Drawn to the exquisite marbled papers in the Wachs books, Bonnie talks about how the books’ forms tell us much about the book as an intellectual and social tool and the role of literature in society. 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.
