EXHIBITION

Fold, Flap, Peep, Pull, Pop!
June 1st through July 27th

For more than seven hundred years book makers have manipulated flat sheets of paper to add three-dimensional qualities to two-dimensional objects. As early as the thirteenth century, they contrived vovelles—two or more parchment or paper disks revolving on string pivots surrounded by either graduated or figured circles—for scholarly books on astronomy and astrology. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries brought lift-the-flap and peep-show books. By the mid-nineteenth century, many publishers had special departments of skilled craftsmen to build handmade mechanical devices within books. Today’s movable books require hundreds of individual handwork procedures in order to create folds, flaps, peep-holes, pull-tabs, pop-ups, and other marvels of paper-engineering.

The Rare Books Division of Special Collections celebrates the history of movable books, imaginative bookmaking, and the multi-dimensionality of the book. THIS EXHIBITION IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Place: Marriott Library wall cases, levels 1 & 2
Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday, 7:00 to midnight;
Friday, 7:00 to 8:00; Saturday, 9:00 to 8:00; Sunday, 10:00
to midnight. Please visit www.lib.utah.edu for holiday and
University of Utah closures.

COSPONSORED LECTURE

Contemporary Context:
Layering Meaning in Artists' Books
June 12th, 7:00

The L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University and the Book Arts Program present Julie Leonard. THE LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Speaker: Julie Leonard, Iowa
Place: D. Lamar Jensen Seminar Room, L. Tom Perry Special
Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, level 1
For more information, please contact the L. Tom Perry Special
Collections at 801.422.3514.

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