PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
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THE KING LIBRARY PRESS
A Book Arts Seminar with
Friday & Saturday, 10 & 11 November 2000 |
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FRITZ KREDEL (1900-1973) gained fame as an illustrator for Alfred A. Knopf, Peter Pauper Press, and the Limited Editions Club. A student of Rudolf Koch in Offenbach and of Victor Hammer in Florence, Kredel's work was already well-known in the fine book world when he arrived in New York in 1938. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kredel was a visiting artist in residence at Transylvania University, and his friendship with the Hammers and Joseph C. Graves resulted in his producing illustrations for the Gravesend Press, the Stamperia del Santuccio, and the Anvil Press. Kredel also produced a woodcut map of Shakertown and an illustration of Christ Church Cathedral. Major exhibitions this year at Yale University, the Grolier Club of New York, and his native Michelstadt mark the centennial of Fritz Kredel's birth. Kredel's Kentucky ties generated a unique cache of original drawings, woodcuts, and correspondence that makes this centennial year a time for celebration in the Lexington arts community, as well. |
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, 10 November 2000
"The Vitality of Fritz Kredel's Book Illustrations"
by Greer Allen
Senior Critic, Yale School of Art
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT
7:30 P.M., THE NEW PEAL GALLERY
King Library / University of Kentucky
Exhibition Reception
Free & Open to All
Saturday, 11 November 2000
B O O K A R T S W O R K S H O P
Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., The King Library Press
"Changing Styles in the Book Covers of
Nineteenth Century America"
Lecture and Discussion with Sue Allen
WITH BINDINGS FROM THE RARE BOOK ROOM
"How Well Do Type and Illustration Harmonize?
A Judgment of Paris"
Graphic Design Clinic with Greer Allen
WITH FINE PRINTING FROM THE RARE BOOK ROOM
L u n c h O n Y o u r O w n
Gallery Tour of the Fritz Kredel Centenary Exhibition
Print a Portfolio of Fritz Kredel Illustrations
In the Studio with Paul E. Holbrook
AT THE GRAVESEND AND HAMMER HAND PRESSES
- Workshop Registration Required -
GREER ALLEN is Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art, having served as University Printer at the universities of Chicago and Yale. He is a practicing graphic designer, planning - in the main - catalogues for art museums and rare book libraries. Summers find him teaching design principles at Rare Book School in the University of Virginia. His long-time enthusiasm for the work of Rudolf Koch and the Offenbach Workshop -which produced Fritz Kredel - led him to a close and satisfying friendship with Kredel's colleague, the late Berthold Wolpe.
SUE ALLEN is the leading historian of nineteenth century American publishers' cloth bindings from their inception as a substitute for leather in 1830 until their eclipse by the book jacket around 1910. Her article in Antiques brought to the attention of a sophisticated audience a folk genre hitherto ignored. Her over-subscribed Rare Book School courses - first at Columbia and now at the University of Virginia - have richly stimulated her students - curators, who stage more and more exhibitions, and preservation officers now working to save these examples of a unique American folk art.
HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP
1. Friday Night's Lecture with Greer Allen is free and open to
all.
2. Saturday's Book Arts Workshop requires registration and
a fee of $25.00. Registration is limited.
To take part in Saturday's activities, make a reservation by calling
859 257-8408 or 859 257-8371, or contacting
klijdb@pop.uky.edu
and then sending your check for $25.00 payable to The University of
Kentucky. Mail to: The King Library Press / University of Kentucky
Libraries / Lexington, KY 40506-0039.
Lecture and Workshop are in the Libraries' Special Collections Department.
Registrants for the Saturday Book Arts Workshop are encouraged (though not required) to bring examples of nineteenth century books in cloth bindings from their own shelves to the binding history session for discussion. All materials for printing the suite of Kredel illustrations on antique hand presses will be provided; if desired, you may bring a smock or apron to work at the press.