Re: [GBW] two November lectures in Boston REVISED

["Jeffrey Altepeter, Bookbinder" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I need to amend the announcement for Jim's lecture at the Boston Athenaeum. 
The lecture is free but requires reservations.  The reservations line at the 
Athenaeum is for members only.  GBW members that are interested in attending 
the lecture should contact Barbara Adams Hebard hebard@bostonathenaeum 
BEFORE October 25th.  Barbara will arrange reservations for GBW members.
Sorry for any confusion,
Jeff Altepeter

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Lecture:
Art, Craft, and Conservation

James Reid-Cunningham
Chief Conservator of the Boston Athenaeum

Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 12:00 noon
The Boston Athenaeum

James Reid-Cunningham has been binding books for almost thirty years, as a 
book conservator, design binder and book artist. In this presentation, he 
will explore the intersection between traditional craft, modern book 
conservation, and the rise of the book as a work of art. He will describe 
the allure of creating and conserving books, and examine why the codex with 
text and pictures became a vehicle for artistic expression during the last 
four decades. Contemporary book art developed from the confluence of four 
trends: luxurious French livre d'artistes, bound by master bookbinders in 
unique artistic bindings called design bindings, in which the text or 
illustrations were a catalyst for the binder's design; revivals in the arts 
of the book in the 1960s and 1970s, as a new generation turned to craftwork 
as both a career and a calling;  the interaction of contemporary art styles 
and traditional book structures resulting in the creation of artist's books; 
and the emergence of digital media and desktop publishing in the 1990s. This 
presentation will feature a display of Mr. Reid-Cunningham's re-bindings of 
sixteenth to twentieth century books, done in the Athenaeum's new 
conservation laboratory. Also on display will be his design bindings, 
miniature books, book art, and limited editions, created by uniting modern 
materials, such as FormicaT, rubber, and linoleum, with traditional 
bookbinding structures. Mr. Reid-Cunningham will survey his own bookwork to 
elucidate the factors that animate contemporary book art and the reasons 
artists still create unique books in the twenty-first century.

James Reid-Cunningham is the Chief Conservator of the Boston Athenaeum, and 
was formerly the Conservator of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard 
University. He studied history and art history at Johns Hopkins University 
and Tufts University and bookbinding at the North Bennet Street School in 
Boston, where he received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006. 
He is the President of the Guild of Book Workers and a Professional 
Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and 
Artistic Works. He teaches bookbinding and conservation workshops 
nationwide. His artwork can be seen at www.reid-cunningham.com. 



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