MODERNISM, PRINT AND THE BOOK

 

Arthur Clutton Brock, Simpson's Choice (London: Omega Workshops, 1915).

 

On 10th December 2012 I will be presenting some of my research as part of a one-day symposium exploring the ways in which twentieth-century artists and writers have approached the book as object, artwork and icon. At the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. 

9.30am - Modernism, Print and the Book:

Elza Adamowicz: Georges Hugnet and the livre d'artiste: poet, artist, publisher

Kristin Bluemel: Joan Hassall in Scotland: The Saltire Society Chapbooks and Modernist Design

Helen Douglas: Weproductions: The Early Paperbacks 1972-76.

Anna Fewster: Bloomsbury Books: Visual and Verbal Collaboration at the Hogarth Press and Omega Workshops

Lisa Otty: Bibliophilic Modernism and the Ovid Press

Julia Panko: "The Cumbersome Book":  Microfilm and the Rhetoric of Textual Materiality

Nina Parish: Which came first, the text or the image? Livres d'artiste by Henri Michaux

Derval Tubridy: Form and the livre d’artiste: A question of ethics?

6.00pm - Johanna Drucker ‘The Art of the Book after Modernism’:  

 

Johanna Drucker is an internationally renowned book artist and scholar. She is currently Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, UCLA. Her works include Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition (1994), The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art (1994),  The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (1995), The Century of Artists’ Books (1995), Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (2005) and SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing (2009).

Organised by the Centre for the History of the Book, Edinburgh University, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.