BOOK ARTS
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course number: ART 455
Dept: Book Arts
Prerequisite: No prerequisites are required for this course, however, attention to detail and good craftsmanship is a plus.
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Course description:
This intensive course will introduce students to the traditions and methods of the handmade book, as well as the expressive possibilities available with book making. The course will begin with simple foundational structures such as pamphlet-stitched and accordion style books and progress through more complex historical structures such as books sewn on supports, long-stitch and coptic bindings. Exploration with materials is encouraged and students can combine other media that they are familiar with (such as photography, printmaking, painting, etc.) in creating their book-works. In addition students will be introduced to traditional methods of typesetting. To help acquaint the student with the long and on-going tradition of book arts in Italy, selected fieldtrips will be organized to visit contemporary artists (bookbinders, papermakers) in their studios as well as visits to museums and
institutions in the area which maintain collections relevant to the art of the book. Slide presentations, sample works and lectures, will give an overview of the history of the book and its development in Western art.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course number: ART 455
Dept: Book Arts
Prerequisite: No prerequisites are required for this course, however, attention to detail and good craftsmanship is a plus.
Click here to ask for this course's syllabus
Course description:
This intensive course will introduce students to the traditions and methods of the handmade book, as well as the expressive possibilities available with book making. The course will begin with simple foundational structures such as pamphlet-stitched and accordion style books and progress through more complex historical structures such as books sewn on supports, long-stitch and coptic bindings. Exploration with materials is encouraged and students can combine other media that they are familiar with (such as photography, printmaking, painting, etc.) in creating their book-works. In addition students will be introduced to traditional methods of typesetting. To help acquaint the student with the long and on-going tradition of book arts in Italy, selected fieldtrips will be organized to visit contemporary artists (bookbinders, papermakers) in their studios as well as visits to museums and
institutions in the area which maintain collections relevant to the art of the book. Slide presentations, sample works and lectures, will give an overview of the history of the book and its development in Western art.
Santa Reparata International School of Art, SRISA -
Via San Gallo, 53r Florence Italy,
info@santareparata.org
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