Johanna Drucker at Notre Dame

Dear all:

Professor Jerry Bruns is bringing Johanna Drucker to campus for a lecture. All are invited to attend.

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O T R E D A M E
D E P A R T M E N T O F E N G L I S H
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JOHANNA DRUCKER
ROBERTSON CHAIR IN MEDIA STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

"PROJECT AND PRODUCT:
THE IDEA OF THE BOOK
IN GRAPHIC FORM"

Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:30 PM
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
A reception will follow in the Great Hall

Owen Jones's masterwork, The Grammar of Ornament, seems remote in design and substance from that of contemporary writers and artists using print media as a form of artistic expression. But the roots of artists' engagement with print media connect the mid-19th century reactions to industrialism to a dilemma that is compellingly current: how to use the idea of the book as the basis of an approach to production. Through discussion of several landmark works- For the Voice, A Humument, Flicker, Wildwood, and Day, among others-this talk sketches the ways the idea of book space and design factor into a distinction between product and project that is continually being reconfigured through the modern to the contemporary period.