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Monthly Archives: February 2019
The garden: a meditation on man & nature
Maureen Cummins book The garden: a meditation on man & nature shows the story of man’s interaction with nature throughout history, with the use of woodblock prints and watercolor. The illustrations are simple and striking with the use of stark … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artists books, block prints, Books, fine printing, Illustrations, Maureen Cummins, printing, Special Collections
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Motion Picture Archive
The very first motion pictures can be accredited to the Lumiere brothers, who would hold public screenings of short films in Paris around the year 1895. Film production companies were quickly appearing all over the world because of the way … Continue reading
Cutaway by Sarah Bryant
Sarah Bryant creates her work under Big Jump Press, which she started in 2005 while she was an MFA student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She produces letterpress printed artist’s books, prints, broadsides, and hand-bound books. She incorporates … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artists books, cutaway, Illustrations, letterpress, printmaking, Sarah Bryant, Special Collections
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J.A.C. Colston WWI diaries.
During World War I, the use of trenches was common for both sides of the fighting. The conditions in the trenches were poor, they were often dirty, wet and cold and the toilets commonly overflowed causing medical problems such as … Continue reading
Posted in History, Medicine, World War I
Tagged diary, World War, World War I, World War II, WW1, WW2
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