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Behind the Personal Library: Collectors Creating the Canon

im Cen­ter for Book Arts, New York vom 11. Ok­to­ber bis 20. De­zem­ber 2014

Ei­ne Aus­stel­lung von Alex­an­der Cam­pos, zu­sam­men mit Jo­han­na Dru­cker (UCLA), Jae Jen­ni­fer Ross­man (Yale) und To­ny White (MICA) über fol­gen­de Sammlungen:
Phil­ip E. Aa­rons & Shel­ley Fox Aa­rons (NY)
Ma­ry Aus­tin (CA)
Du­ke Col­lier (MA)
Jack Gins­berg (Süd­Af­ri­ca)
Ar­thur Jaf­fe (FL)
Mo­ni­ca Op­pen (Aus­tra­li­en)
Bar­ba­ra Pas­cal (CA)
Ro­bert Ru­ben (NY)
Mar­vin & Ruth Sack­ner (FL)
Ju­lia Ver­mes (Schweiz)
Fran­cis H. Wil­liam (MA/NY)
Mar­tha Wil­son (NY)
Es­tate of To­ny Zwi­cker (CT)

Be­hind the Per­so­nal Li­bra­ry: Coll­ec­tors Crea­ting the Ca­non con­siders the in­fluence of pri­va­te coll­ec­tors on the cri­ti­cal dia­lo­gue in the field of book arts. Ra­ther than cu­ra­ting the works around a cen­tral the­me, the goal of this ex­hi­bi­ti­on is to ex­ami­ne works in the­se coll­ec­tions that have be­co­me se­mi­nal art­works in the field at lar­ge, thus be­co­ming in­flu­en­ti­al to es­tab­li­shing a ca­non. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on al­so ana­ly­zes the coll­ec­tors them­sel­ves: how they ca­me to coll­ect books, what dro­ve them to con­ti­nue coll­ec­ting, whe­ther they con­scious­ly built and cu­ra­ted their coll­ec­tions, and how the­se fac­tors in­fluen­ced and in­for­med ar­tist book­ma­king prac­ti­ces. On top of con­ti­nuing the con­ver­sa­ti­on of the book arts ca­non, Be­hind the Per­so­nal Li­bra­ry is a walk down me­mo­ry la­ne wi­th the Cen­ter for Book Arts. Ma­ny of the works and ar­tists in this show are co­ming full cir­cle, ha­ving ex­hi­bi­ted at the Cen­ter previously.
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