Professional Organizations
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Guild of Bookworkers
Institute of Conservation / Institute for Paper Conservation [UK]
Online Resources
The Book Arts Web
Conservation Online (CoOL)
The Massachusetts Cultural Council
Easthampton City Arts, Easthampton, MA
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A game in hell, hard work in heaven
our first lessons were pretty good ones
together, remember?
We nibbled like mice on turbid time
In hoc signo vinces!
Velimir Khlebnikov, 1920
"I'm still surprised that things do change. I can't believe it, quite. Some of those stories are 50 years old. My old paperbacks are all yellow and crumbly. Am I that yellow and crumbly, I ask myself?"
John Updike, 2004
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The wind had to go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages ... It amused me to bring the idea of happy and unhappy into readymades, and then the rain, the wind, the pages flying, it was an amusing idea.
Marcel Duchamp,
Unhappy Readymade
"I remember reading in a history of British Medieval art that much of art history is incomplete because a good deal of the art of various periods was fragile and has been destroyed, either through use, social disruption or the fairly common attitude that old or unfashionable things are of little value and may be used to line books or to paper walls. I concluded from these facts that we construct our ideas about great art from the things that have survived, that physical survival is a matter of luck as much as of any deliberate like rational thought or perceived aesthetic value, and that the physical survival of objects most likely determines aesthetic values."
Curnoe, Greg in Maheux, Anne, et al (1994) "Panel Discussion: The Conflict Between Conservation Treatments and the Preservation of Artists Materials and Intent" in Conservation of historic and artistic works on paper: proceedings of a conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 3 to 7, 1988. Canadian Conservation Institute, p. 292.
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People & Places & Things
A Gallery of Readers | Vernon Street Writing Workshops, Northampton, MA
Drink Your Pudding!, The Blog. On Wednesdays.
The Ligature Project : driving under the influence of ampersands
One Cottage Street (Studio Building), Easthampton, MA
Sarah Creighton, Bookbinder, Easthampton, MA
Mark Cockram, Fellow, Designer Bookbinders, London
Studio 5, Mark Cockram, London
Scott Kellar, Bookbinding, Chicago, Illinois.
Quercus Press / Johnny Carrera, Waltham, MA
Kat Ran Press / Michael Russem, Florence, MA
Propolis Press / Karen Randall, Northampton, MA
West Dean College, Chichester, West Sussex, England
Dean Library and Archive National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
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The Official I am a book conservator ® tee shirt, original and altered versions now available in a limited edition
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Destroy completely the book in art (an inert form of conveying words by means of paper and typeface), and turn directly to the art of life, putting poetry and thoughts on fences, walls, houses, factories, roofs, on the wings of airplanes, on the decks of ships, on sails, with electric projectors in the sky, on clothing.
the Russian Futurist Kamenskii, 1918
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