Please join us this week for the next session of this year's History of Art series!

We organized a series of talks this year around the general theme of the book as a material object; we invited a wide range of artists, writers, and scholars from a variety of backgrounds to give us different perspectives on the book. We wanted to focus on the book's relationship with time, how people have interacted with books throughout history, and how it continues to function in the present.

Back in February Jane Siegel was kind enough (in a blizzard!) to give a curator's tour to a packed house of how we have interacted with the written word over time, via her favorite treasures from the collection she works with as Rare Book Librarian at Columbia University. This Wednesday we're pleased to present the second installment:

This Wednesday, March 3rd, 6:30PM
Co-sponsored by the American Printing History Association, New York Chapter.

A Force Beyond Function: The Conversation, Technology, and Significance of the Codex.

Join us for a panel discussion centered on the form of the book as an expression of technology.

With Jeff Peachy, Book Conservator; Sarah Lowengard, Historian of Technology and Science, The Cooper Union; Marie Fredricks, Drue Heinz Book Conservator, The Morgan Library and Museum; and John Townsend, Independent Bookbinder and Conservator

How Much: $10/$5 members of the Center & APHA (suggested)

Where: The Center for Book Arts,
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor