Cultural Practices of Intermediality examines how print interacted with the broader media ecology between 1700 and 1900. Focusing on the area of art and the stage, the exhibition includes books, printed images, plays, librettos, musical scores, playbills, theatre programmes, caricature, printed...
Exhibitions
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 09:00 to Friday, March 30, 2012 - 17:00
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 09:00 to Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 17:00
People in the World of Print examines how people interacted with print between 1700 and 1900. An explosion of print culture characterized these centuries: books, newspapers, magazines, evangelical tracts, broadsides, and printed images, along with other printed items, proliferated in...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 09:00 to Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 17:00
The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion of printed matter in Europe, as new technologies such as the steam press and new distribution infrastructures such as the railway produced and circulated printed books in unprecedented numbers. But manuscript was not simply superseded by print....
Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 09:00 to Monday, March 31, 2008 - 17:00
In his Essays on Physiognomy, Johann Caspar Lavater (1741–1801) defines physiognomy as “the Science of discovering the relation between the exterior and the interior.” The Swiss pastor proposes no less than “to decipher the original language of Nature, written on the face of Man, and on the...
