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When is a Book More (or less) than a Book – And What is a “book”? Visiting the Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Books As Aesthetic Objects
One of the many PopUp Books in the Jaffe Collection (Photo Courtesy of Candace Kahan)
There is great breadth to this collection. It encompasses not just artists’ books and limited editions, but also books that just appealed to the collecting sensibilities of the Jaffes. As such, there is much here that would be found in traditional libraries.
“Prayer Book” from the Jaffe Collection (Photo Courtesy of Candace Kahan)
There is great focus given to the artists’ book and on all aspects of the Book Arts: artists using the book as a means of artistic expression, fine bindings, limited edition printings, hand paper making and paper decoration, and indeed any of the handcrafts that artisans use to create books.
John Cutrone shows incised and hand written pages of Book (Photo courtesy of Candace Kahan)
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BOOK ARTS CLASS
Click the date below, which will open an email that you can send to John Cutrone, JCBA Director. Sending the email, with your contact information, will begin the registration process:
Tuition Schedule
Self-determined (your tuition is a gift to the JCBA Education Fund).
September is that time of year when we here in Florida begin to get a little punch drunk on summer. The heat and humidity have been with us for so long, it’s hard to imagine life without them. Each day is very much the same as the one that came before it and the next day will probably be just like today: About 90 degrees, sunny, with a good chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. What we need is a little change of pace. What we need is a good escape.
John Cutrone Shows Pages of a Book, created with heat and fire (Photo Courtesy of Rickie Leiter)
JCBA has just the ticket. We can change you into a book artist (and a cool one at that) with this three and a half hour introductory immersion in the Jaffe Center for Book Arts. We’ll begin with a screening of a 20-minute video about JCBA and the amazing collection of artists’ books that is at its core. We’ll follow this with an in-depth viewing of some of the artists’ books in the collection––books that will entertain, inspire, and astound.
John Cutrone displays small books that have been placed in clear pill containers (Photo Courtesy of Candace Kahan)
We’ll honor summer by finding some particularly summery books from the collection… and maybe even encourage summer to pack its bags by conjuring some books that bring to mind cooler, more varied days. Expect a summertime story or two, as well, from the instructor’s cache of Convivio Dispatches from Lake Worth.
John Cutrone Demonstrates Book Pages flapping – part of the story this book tells (Photo Courtesy Caren Hackman)
Afterwards, we’ll move on to the JCBA Letterpress Studio, where each participant will print a sheet of paper from type set by hand out of JCBA’s collection of historic wood type. These sheets will be the covers for the books we’ll make, a brief history of the book arts that we’ll bind by hand in the Single Signature Pamphlet stitch, a simple bookbinding technique that you can use again and again in your own book projects.
John Cutrone shows one end of symbol story book
Arthur Jaffe holds end of symbol story book (Photos courtesy of Rickie Leiter)
You’ll go home with a book you made yourself––one that you can read as sleep calls later that night, as you reflect on the new outlook on books (and maybe even life) that you’ve found earlier that evening at JCBA. “For there is great joy in knowing how to do things.” All levels are welcome!
John Cutrone shows postcard book, personalized by the artist. (Photo courtesy of Candace Kahan)
For more information about classes or tours, please contact:
JCBA: Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, Florida 33431www.jaffecollection.org
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