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Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly

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“The literary value, if I may say it, of this span of empty space on the page, which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one’s simultaneous view of the entirety of the page…” (Stéphane Mallarmé, “Observation Relative au Poème Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard,” Cosmopolis, May 1897, p. 412 [trans.]) [Read more…] about Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly

George Macy’s illustrated editions of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic

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Between July 1937 and March 1938, Nonesuch Press—under the direction of George Macy—set out to publish what it billed as the most extensive collection yet made of Charles Dickens’s writings. It had already been an energetic few years. Macy founded the subscription-based Limited Editions Club in 1929, and the Heritage Press in 1935, before acquiring London-based Nonesuch Press in 1936. Nonesuch’s practice of teaming up a small hand press for design and commercial printers for production allowed for a wider circulation of its fine-press quality books. [Read more…] about George Macy’s illustrated editions of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic

Orchestrating the Mexican Moment in New York

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By Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins

“In the eighteen years since the wild men of Mexican art first bombshelled the gente culta of the capital with their ideas, behavior, and pictures, their work has become established as the first original and powerful modern art in America. [Read more…] about Orchestrating the Mexican Moment in New York

Thousands of cultural heritage materials now instantly shareable in new online platform

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Ransom Center adopts IIIF and Mirador viewer

More than 50,000 images in the Ransom Center’s digital collections portal are now available via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF offers new ways to view, compare and engage with images. [Read more…] about Thousands of cultural heritage materials now instantly shareable in new online platform

Take home a little bit of Mexico with vintage travel postcards

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Mid-twentieth-century travel materials aimed to depict Mexico as an exotic destination

The Ransom Center’s current exhibition Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1945 showcases Mexican art immediately following the Mexican Revolution in 1920 to the 1940s when it entered the American mainstream. [Read more…] about Take home a little bit of Mexico with vintage travel postcards