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
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Research 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
In 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
Helen Moore shares insight about Oxford and the making of the King James Bible
In April, Helen Moore, Fellow and Tutor in English at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, spoke about the history of the King James translation at the Harry Ransom Center. The talk is now online on YouTube. Moore was lead curator of Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the… read more
Driftwood in an archive
Writer Jim Crace, author of Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), speaks about ephermera in archives and the narratives and stories they provide. Crace elaborates about a piece of driftwood found in his archive that contains a note that was later incorporated into… read more
In the Galleries: Robert De Niro’s King James Version-inspired tattoos in "Cape Fear"
The 1991 Martin Scorsese–directed thriller Cape Fear may seem an unlikely candidate for documenting the use and influence of the King James Bible, but its central character, Max Cady, as played by Robert De Niro, wielded biblical verses like weapons. This aspect of Cady was absent in both the original… read more