BOOK ART EVENTS (Field Trip Options)

You are responsible for attending at least three of the following events.  You should submit a 2 page write up for each event you attend.

 

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Feb 1, 1-2:  Guided Tours by Curator, “A True Friend of the Cause Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement”

Feb  21 , 6:00 PM–8:30 PM, Columbia University, Talk:  “What Middletown Read: Rediscovering Late Nineteenth-Century American Reading Habits

Feb22- April 29, Grolier Club, “Images of Value: The  Artwork Behind U.S. Security Engraving 1830s-1980s”

March 3, 6:30: Center for Book Arts:  History of Art Series, Panel 1:  Paper as Vehicle for History and Memory

March 17, 6:30: Center for Book Arts:  History of Art Series, Panel 2: Paper as Social Practice, Engagement, and Intervention

March 31, 6:30: Center for Book Arts:  History of Art Series, Panel 3:  Paper as Haptic Experience

April- May 2017, New York Historical Society?

 

January 24 to May 26, 2017   Columbia University, Kempner Gallery, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Harper & Brothers to HarperCollins Publishers: A Bicentennial Exhibition

 

The Possible Great Works

 

Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley

Poems and Rousseau?

The Scarlet Letter (1850) Nathaniel Hawthorne

Children’s Story

Notes from Underground  (1864)  Fydor Dostoevsky

“The Crocodile”

The Metamorphoses (1912) Franz Kafka

Short Story

Quicksand & Passing  (1928/9) Nella Larsen

Short Story

The Little Prince (1948) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Letter

Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison

Recitalif

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1997) Moises Kaufman

American Born Chinese (2013) Gene Luen Yang

Graphic Novel Workshop