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Mar 10, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
Christopher de Hamel. "The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are...


Mar 10, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft
Peter Bellerby. "Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team...


Feb 12, 2024
BOOK REVIEWS — Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
Brooke Belisle. University of California Press, 2023. How does depth inform the way we see and experience the world, and can it be truly...


Dec 2, 2023
NEW IN PRINT — Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter
Elodie A. Roy. “This book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, retracing its journey from the visual to the...


Dec 2, 2023
NEW IN PRINT — A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art
Marta McDowell (Editor) and Janet Stiles Tyson (Contributor). “In the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699–c. 1758) found herself penniless,...


Dec 2, 2023
NEW IN PRINT — Trailblazing Women Printmakers
Elena M. Sarni. Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers is a visual history of “one of...


Dec 2, 2023
NEW IN PRINT — The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families
Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer. “Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an...


Dec 2, 2023
NEW IN PRINT — The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic
Elisabeth Gernerd. “From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the...

Oct 30, 2023
VMS LEADERSHIP — Annual Meeting Proposal Brainstorming (2023)
Visual Materials Section event Thursday, November 2 @ 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT Do you have a project or an idea related to visual materials...


Jul 10, 2023
IN DEPTH — Lessons Learned in Preserving a Commercial Photography Studio
Over the past few years, the Missouri Historical Society’s Photos and Prints Department has undertaken a large-scale project to fully...
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