[EKStationers] Symposium: Woodcuts in Early Printed Books

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   Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:19:16 -0800 (PST)
   From: Mark Dimunation <mdim at loc.gov>
Reply-To: rbms at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: LC Symposium on The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

The Rare Book and Special Collections Division
In Association with the Center for the Book
Announces

A Library of Congress Rare Book Forum

A symposium on The Medieval & Renaissance Woodcut
April 21, 2005
On the occasion of the Library of Congress Exhibition
"A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books"

The Rare Book and Special Collections Division proudly announces the
third Library of Congress Rare Book Forum.  This Symposium takes place
Thursday, April 21, 2005 with a program of speakers addressing various
aspects of the stylistic development of the Renaissance woodcut in
Western Europe from 1480 to 1520.  Inspired by the collection of early
printed books illustrated with woodcuts that Lessing J. Rosenwald
purchased at the sale of the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins, this
symposium showcases some of the most recent scholarship in the field of
early printed books.

Lilian Armstrong, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art at Wellesley
College opens the program with her paper, "Benedetto Bordon and
'Classical' Woodcuts in Venetian Renaissance Books, 1500-1520."  She
will be followed by Richard S. Field, Curator Emeritus of Prints,
Drawings, and Photographs at Yale University Art Gallery and former
Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection.  His paper is entitled,
"Apotheosis and Standardization in the Woodcuts of Albrecht
Dürer and his Contemporaries."  The final paper of the morning session
will be delivered by Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C.
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at University of Pennsylvania on
the topic of "Image Against Text: Dressing and Undressing Adam and
Eve."

In the afternoon, panelists will continue the discussion of the early
woodcut with presentations by Helena Szépe, Associate Professor of Art
at the University of South Florida, speaking on "Benedetto Bordon and
Venetian Ducali;" Eric White, Curator of Special Collections at The
Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, who addresses "The
Woodcuts in Breydenbach's Peregrinatio and the Limits of
Fifteenth-Century Empiricism;" Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art and
Architectural History, The Sackler Museum, Harvard University, whose
talk is entitled, "From Print to Manuscript: A Case Study in the
Interaction of Incunabula and Illumination;" and Daniel De Simone,
Curator of the  Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, The Library of
Congress, speaking on the "Stylistic Influences on Ferrarese Woodcut
Design at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century."

The LC Rare Book Forum will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. on April 21,
2005 in the Mumford Room, sixth floor, Madison Building of The Library
of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., S.E.  The program will end at 4:30
p.m., followed by a reception.  The event is free and open to the
public, but we encourage those of you who expect to attend to contact
the, Daniel De Simone at The Library of Congress, by email at
ddes at loc.gov or by telephone (202 707 3402) or fax (202 707 4142.)

This symposium is sponsored by a generous gift from The Gladys Krieble
Delmas Foundation. 

Mark Dimunation
Assistant Director for Special Collections, and
Chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Division
The Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540-4740

202-707-2025 phone
202-707-4142 fax
mdim at loc.gov