Gombar/Duychak Workshop on Early Modern Print Culture: “Materials, Medium, and Print: Interacting with Unusual Prints, Books, and Manuscripts”

Gombar/Duychak Workshop on Early Modern Print Culture

Materials, Medium, and Print: Interacting with Unusual Prints, Books, and Manuscripts
Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Newberry Library
April 12th, 2021 at 1:00pm CT via Zoom.

This workshop is open to UW–Madison graduate students and faculty. Please email Prof. Jennifer Pruitt at jpruitt@wisc.edu to obtain the Zoom link and readings.

Readings for the Workshop:
Susan Dackerman, “Dürer’s Indexical Fantasy: The Rhinoceros and Printmaking” in Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard University Art Gallery, 2012, pages 164–71.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life, Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011, pages 9–36, and Kimberly Nichols’ note at the end on the “Physical Qualities of Early Prints,” 98–105.