Category: Letterpress
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Letterpress: Art or Craft?
Anyone who has spent much time in the world of visual and material culture will be familiar with the so-called “art vs. craft debate”. Rooted in early modern and modern western European distinctions between (fine) “art”, e.g., Michelangelo’s David, and (not so fine) “craft”, e.g., a Toby jug, this perceived duality continues to echo through…
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Conference Season
It’s the middle of conference season, at least for me. While the book continues to occupy most of my time, I’ve also been busy with a few papers which I hope might be interesting and indicative of some of the new directions in which my research has been moving. If you’re there anyway, you might…
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The Pathfoot Press: Six Months In
When I came to my job interview at Stirling, I was full of big ideas, not all of them very practical. One particularly far-fetched scheme I had was to propose developing a bibliography course at postgraduate level and equipping a print room for use by the students. I laid this out in my job talk,…
Kelsey Jackson Williams 