In partnership with Tanner Humanities Center and the J. Willard Marriott Library, join us for a one-day symposium exploring the dynamic intersections of book history. Through three engaging sessions, scholars and practitioners will delve into how books have served as acts of defiance, how printing technologies...
“Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. Not only all the world of works, trade, products, But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.” — “Song of the Exposition,” Walt Whitman Moscow Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) Moscow...
“I knew immediately that we should use this technology to offer the audience a bird’s eye view of what the actors experience on the stage.” This was what Denny Berry, the University of Utah’s Musical Theatre Program Head, thought after a meeting with the Marriott...
“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra...
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“These showings of Intertype “Fotosetter” Garamond mark an important event in the history of Intertype Corporation. All of the composition was produced on an Intertype Fotosetter photographic line-composing machine. The original film positives were used to make deep-etch lithographic plates, from which this booklet was...