About Blooks

Discovering the book as object by Mindell Dubansky

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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Come Meet Me at the Boston Book Fair

Hello Blook-lovers! I hope to see some of you at this Ticknor Society event in Boston. I'll be happy to sign your books, but I won...

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Blooks Exhibition On NOW at Bard College

Public Exhibition Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren't Charles P. Stevenson Library. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York...

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Guest Post: Lynn Festa on Blooks and the Nature of Books

Program designed by Jenny Davis On February 2, 2016 the Grolier Club and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library...

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Curious Genre of Maple Sugar Bible Molds

Before the availability of refrigeration which made maple syrup a viable commodity, maple products were produced in solid forms such as ma...

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About Me

Mindell Dubansky: Mindell Dubansky is head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation, Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She writes on the book arts, particularly in the areas of 19th century publisher’s bindings, hand papermaking and bookbinding. Having had the fortune to be helplessly and irreversibly drawn to a life among books, Ms. Dubansky has utilized her knowledge and love of the physical book to gather and describe an extensive group of international book-shaped objects from the Medieval Era to today. As a group, these objects illustrate the abiding human need to reflect values and emotions through creating and associating with books. Currently, she is writing a survey of book-shaped objects and is planning a small exhibition at Vassar College Art Library in 2015 and a member's exhibition at the Grolier Club upon completion of her book. If you are interested in 19th century decorated bookbindings, or women's, book or design history, please have a look at my blog on Alice C. Morse (http://alicemorse.blogspot.com).

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