Book Illustration & Printmaking Courses at Rare Book School
Rare Book School
Sessions 2004, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics
concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing,
and special collections to be held at the University of Virginia.
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41. BOOK ILLUSTRATION PROCESSES TO 1890. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 14-18 JUNE).
The identification of illustration processes and techniques, including
(but not only) woodcut, etching, engraving, stipple, aquatint,
mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, steel engraving, process line
and halftone relief,
collotype, photogravure, and color printing. The course will be taught
almost entirely from the extensive Rare Book School files of examples
of
illustration processes. As part of the course, students will make
their own etchings, drypoints, and relief cuts in supervised
laboratory sessions.
Instructor: Terry Belanger.
TERRY BELANGER, founding director of Rare Book School, is University
Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the
University of
Virginia.
42. JAPANESE PRINTMAKING, 1615-1868. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 14-18 JUNE). A
survey of Ukiyo-e, the art of the Japanese woodblock print. Ukiyo-e
literally means "floating art world," and it is through an exploration
of the Floating World that produced this art that we come to
understand it. The
course considers how the Floating World developed in the c17 out of
the earlier court culture, how it created an interest in the
courtesans, actors, and
famous places of Japan that became the chief subject-matter of c17-c19
printmakers, and how it declined and changed in the late c19. The
course will
take advantage of the extensive collection of Japanese prints owned by
the University of Virginia Art Museum. Instructor: Sandy Kita.
SANDY KITA is Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at the University of
Maryland, and is the author of A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Woodblock
Prints in
the James Austin Collection (1996) and The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi
Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e (1999).
66. JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 1615-1868 (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 12-16 JULY,
WALTERS ART MUSEUM, BALTIMORE, MD). Commercial publishing
flourished in Japan in the Tokugawa period (1615-1868). Book
illustration came into its own in Japan by the closing decades of the
c17. At first, the
illustrations were printed in black only; color printing from multiple
blocks was fully mastered by 1760. Thereafter color was commonly used
in book
production, although books with line only illustrations continued to
be produced in large numbers to the end of the period. The success of
these book
illustrations depended upon the close collaboration of artists,
copyists, blockcutters and printers under the supervision of
publishers responsive to the
demands of the market.This course provides an introduction to
illustrated books and prints produced in Japan, 1615- 1868. Topics to
be covered
include: overview of the history of the period; the physical
characteristics of Japanese books and their modes of production and
distribution (publishers,
booksellers & book-lenders, readers, marketing); the major categories
of Japanese illustrated books (painting manuals, copy books, picture
books
without words, poetry anthologies, novels, topographical studies,
botanical surveys, erotica); books illustrated by artists of the
Ukiyo-e, Nanga,
Kanô and Maruyama-Shijô schools; the impact of imported Chinese books
on Japanese book production; the development of single-sheet woodblock
prints in the context of the history of the Japanese illustrated book;
issues related to conserving, cataloging, and describing Japanese
books. Instructor:
Ellis Tinios.
ELLIS TINIOS Honorary Lecturer in the School of History, University of
Leeds; Research Associate at the Japan Research Centre, School of
Oriental and
African Studies, University of London; and special assistant to the
Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum. He is the
author of Mirror
of the Stage: The Actor Prints of Kunisada (1996), On the Margins of
the City: Recreation on the Periphery of Edo with Paul Waley (1999)
and Kawamura
Bumpô: Artist of the Two Worlds (2003); and he is a contributor to
Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints in the Anne van Biema Collection
(2002). He has
written a number of articles dealing with nineteenth-century Japanese
actor prints and illustrated books. He is currently engaged in
producing a
catalogue of books by Maruyama-Shijô artists in the British Museum,
which will form part of a larger publication dealing with the
Maruyama-
Shijô paintings, prints, and books held by the Museum. He teaches this
RBS course for the first time in 2004.
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