As part of Melbourne Rare Book Week the Melbourne artist and book collector Patrick Pound will put together and exhibition at the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library at the University of Melbourne Southbank Campus (VCA). The exhibition will include subtle and poetic interventions in the library’s regular displays as well as art and ephemera related to the book and music collections, which explore the act of reading. Artist floor talk: Sunday 27 July, 2pm - Registrations for the talk are essential, bookings online http://bit.ly/1scXAem The exhibition will run from…
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Symposium | Libri: Italian passion and the book
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As part of the exhibition Libri: six centuries of Italian books from the Baillieu Library’s Special Collections a symposium will be held at the Baillieu Library on the 24th July. Date: 1-5pm, 24th July 2013 Venue: Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne Website http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/exhibitions/ Program 1.00pm Introduction 1.00 - 1.15 1.15pm Andrea Rizzi - Language of love and love for language: the enterprise of Poliphilo’s dream 2.00pm Jaynie Anderson - An Erotic Antiquarian Romance: the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499) 3.00pm Antonino Nielfi - Futurism’s Parole in libertà!: telling, assembling and representing 4.00pm My experiences: Italians in Australia, short…
Rare Books Summer School at the State Library Victoria
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Rare Books Summer School State Library of Victoria Immerse yourself in the world of rare books during an intensive five-day course at the 7th Australian and New Zealand Rare Books Summer School. Four courses will be presented: ‘Artists’ books, zines and other collaborative ventures’ Professor Sasha Grishin (6–10 February) ‘Botanical riches: the art of the book’ Richard Aitken (13–17 February) ‘Ephemera: a collector’s key to the history of books’ Wallace Kirsop (13–17 February) ‘The poetics of printing on the iron hand-press’ Caren Florance (13–17 February, Monash University, Caulfield) Please note…