“This is the art of arts, the science of sciences. The valuable treasures of wisdom and knowledge, desired by all men, come out of the deep shadow of hiding, enriching and illuminating a world in the hands of evil. The unlimited power of books…now spreads...
These commentaries are excerpts from an assigned project for Humanities4900/6900, “Indigenous Peoples: Social and Cultural Perspectives,” taught by Isabel Dulfano, Spring semester 2016. Students studied demographics, Mayan epigraphy, Incan kipu, archaeology, linguistics and other topics as an interdisciplinary approach to critically expanding their understanding of...
“o Prince of Poetry” Dhikrá Shaksipīr Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī (1892-1955) Egypt: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Salafīyah, 1926 First edition PJ7808.S5 D55 1926 The Egyptian poet Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī was a man of many talents. Not only was he renowned as a poet and man of letters, he was also trained as a...
“Matt Christensen, a sophomore in engineering, took time to look at the display between classes. ‘I think it’s really interesting how they’ve created something both new and fresh, but out of a format we’re all used to,’ Christensen said.” Land-Art Inspired Library Exhibit Showcases Books As Art...
Preghiera alla Vergine… Modena: Il Bulino edizioni d’arte, 2007 Facsimile. This illuminated manuscript belonged a young woman of the Veronese aristocracy. Produced on vellum in the second half of the thirteenth century, it is illustrated throughout with miniatures and consists of forty-two folios, or eighty-four pages. The...
“A eia kekahi, i kona heluhelu ana, ua hoopihaia oia me ka Uhane o ka Haku.” KA BUKE O NA BERITA AMEN A KAUOHA San Francisco, 1855 First edition The first missionary work in Hawai’i for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1850, when Charles...
Special Treatments Illuminations from the Wisdom Volume The Utah Calligraphic Artists guild is pleased to host an evening lecture with Diane von Arx, one of three American calligraphers invited to be part of the artistic team for the St. John’s Bible project. Thursday May 5, 2016 7PM Utah Cultural Celebration...
“You oceans both, I close with you, We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why, These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.” WHITMAN CROSSHATCH… Walt Whitman (1819-1892) East Hampton, NY: 2015 From the artist’s statement: “both a hunt for, and a despair of, meaning. The...
“In the zoo we see, on a small scale, how different all animals are from each other… We have to live together whether we like it or not.” KUTHAN’S MENAGERIE COMPLETED George Kuthan (1916-1966) Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2003 Descriptive text about six animals – a raccoon, flamingo, anteater, penguin, monkey...
“There is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go down.” – Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1874 LES MORMONS (SAINTS DES DERNIERS-JOURS) ET LEUR… Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse (1825-1882) Lausanne: Imprimerie Larpin et Coendoz, 1854 First edition BX8635 S74 1854 T....