RENAISSANCE COLLAGE

A seminar exploring the period’s cultures of cutting, pasting and stitching, the books they created (and destroyed), and the problems they pose for study, cataloguing and conservation.

SPEAKERS:
Juliet Fleming (Cambridge/NYU), Adam Smyth (Reading), Jeff Knight (Cambridge), Georgia Brown (London), and Bill Sherman (York)

PARKER LIBRARY
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
FRIDAY 26TH OCTOBER, 1-5pm

The event is open to everyone and there is no need to register. For more information contact Professor Bill Sherman at ws505@york.ac.uk.

1:00-3:30: MEETING ROOM 14

Bill Sherman (York):
‘Toward a Prehistory of Collage’

Juliet Fleming (Cambridge/NYU):
‘Hannah Woolley and the Death of the Book’

Adam Smyth (Reading):
‘“With nice knives, and scissors”: Little Gidding’s Incomplete Harmonies’

Jeff Knight (Cambridge):
‘Sewing in Books’

Georgia Brown (Cambridge):
‘Cutting, Sticking and Material Meaning’

3:30-4:00: TEA

4:00-5:00: PARKER LIBRARY

Open discussion (including questions of cataloguing and conservation) and examination of items of special interest.