July 24, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingArtists’ books bring text to life through art The definition of what constitutes an artist’s book varies significantly depending on the social or critical circle observing the book. Is it an artist’s book, a livre d’artiste, an artist’s illustrated book, bookart, pop art, or a fine press book? If one were to look up the term and read… read more
July 17, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingResearch at the Ransom Center: “Modernism and Christianity” Dr. Erik Tonning is Research Director of the “Modernism and Christianity” project at the University of Bergen, Norway. He visited the Ransom Center in June 2011 to view a range of its modernism holdings and to gather information on behalf of his research team from several of the Ransom Center’s… read more
July 12, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsIn the Galleries: John Speed’s Postdeluvian Genealogy from the First Edition of the King James Bible Historian John Speed (1542–1629) worked with Hebrew scholar Hugh Broughton to create a 36-page genealogy to accompany the first printing of the King James Bible. The genealogy traced “euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Speed’s genealogy… read more
