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May 16, 2019 Student Response — Literary Analysis Spanish 3070

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In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

Jul 17, 2017 Book of the Week — On Painting

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“Colour and light have an important relationship in the act of seeing…colours multiply among themselves, but, like the elements, there are only four true colours from which other species of colour are born. There is red, the colour of fire; blue, of air; green, of...

Jul 06, 2016 Book of the week — Night feet on earth

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“Where the hooves touch the ground.” NIGHT FEET ON EARTH Ken Campbell London, England: Ken Campbell, 1986 N7433.4 C36 N44 1987 Artist’s statement: “The recent visitation by Halley’s Comet, and its image upon the Bayeux Tapestry, brought forth a poem about comets and a divine child descending:; a rather pagan...