Category Archives: Exhibits

New exhibit! Beyond Words: Visual Narratives from the Block Book to the Graphic Novel

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Yesterday I posed a question on Facebook: What do Albrecht Durer, Thomas Rowlandson, Frans Masereel, and Art Spiegelman have in common?  The answer: they all published works of sequential art, which are now on view in our latest exhibition, Beyond … Continue reading →

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Papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Lanford Wilson in Special Collections

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

We’re happy to announce that an exhibition of selected materials from the Lanford Wilson Collection, curated by our colleagues at the University Archives, is on view in the Ellis Library Colonnade. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson made a legacy gift … Continue reading →

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Giovanni Boccaccio turns 700

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Giovanni Boccaccio was born seven hundred years ago in Tuscany, Italy. Special Collections and Rare Books celebrates this important anniversary by displaying editions of Boccaccio’s work as well as that of influential contemporaries and predecessors. Boccaccio made an inauspicious start … Continue reading →

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