January 30, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events“Hasty and exuberant” decoration in the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible The Ransom Center’s two-volume Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display. Every few months the Center’s staff changes the opening, allowing visitors to see different pages and to protect the volumes from overexposure to light.
December 21, 2016, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyRansom Center conservator treats preliminary layouts for Ed Ruscha’s Hard Light The Edward Ruscha Papers and Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Center includes preliminary layout sheets for Hard Light, a collaborative artist’s book published by Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner in 1978.
December 20, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsFrom Mainz to Austin: Carl H. Pforzheimer’s Gutenberg Bible and its earlier owners Eric White, Curator of Rare Books at Princeton University, discusses the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible on Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. for the Center’s annual Pforzheimer lecture.
