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Item Exhibit Poster for, "Labor in the Eyes of Artists: Zines, Scenes and Inbetweens," April 1 - July 18, 2014(2014-04) Ultan, Deborah; Keating, LindsayThe exhibit highlights artist zines, posters, and other forms of aesthetically derived text/image formats to explore issues of social justice as a means to promote social change. The materials on exhibit are from the Francis V. Gorman Collection of Rare Art Books, the Social Welfare History Archives, and the University Libraries' Special Collections.Item Exhibit Catalog for, "SEM, GiGi, and Caricature," February 3 - April 19, 2015(2015) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Keating, Lindsay; Otten, NikkiThe exhibition, "Sem, GiGi, and caricature," celebrates the new thirty-foot long acquisition, "Sem au Bois," accompanied by other special collection materials contextualizing caricature during la Belle Epoque in France, and as expressed in the comedic novella, "GiGi," written by the French author Colette. On display are late 19th and early 20th century illustrated journals, books, prints, and newspapers from the University of Minnesota Special Collections, in particular, the Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Book Collection.Item Postcard for, "Getting to Truths: An Exhibition Featuring Selections from the Marshall Weber Culture Wars Zine Collection: 1976-2013," September 17 - October 7, 2014(2014-09-17) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Keating, Lindsay; Klug, ShannonZines selected for the exhibit “Getting to Truths” represent production methods and formats to exemplify the bold and creative range of manifestations from raw xerox booklets to printed and bound zines. Ten categories organically surfaced from the collection of almost 500 zines, including art, music, comics, poetry & fiction, hobo & travel, political, feminism, environmentalism, humor, and personal. In many cases, zines are genre-blending and fit into multiple categories.Item Exhibit Guide for, "Visual Spaces, Literacy Places," March 11 - May 5, 2011(2013-06-06) Sienkiewicz, Emily; Wertheim, Laura; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Klug, Shannon; Terpstra, Darren; Peters, JenSelections from the Francis V. Gorman Rare and Special Art Book Collection have been highlighted in annual exhibitions since 2003. These exhibitions have focused on themes such as celebrity culture, graphic design, the history of exhibition catalogs, and the ritual of reading, to suitably and beautifully reveal the rare materials in the collection. By extending the curatorship to especially appointed graduate students, the exhibits serve as a scholarly and collaborative opportunity between faculty, students, departments, and the Libraries. These curatorial contributions will be showcased in this year's retrospective.Item Exhibit Guide for, "Paradise and Purgatory," February 14 - April 4, 2008(2013-05-31) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Freeman, Travis; Wong, MichaelTwo art exhibits—one of works by University of Minnesota graduate students, and one of images from the University's Gorman Rare Art Book Collection—explore themes of salvation and damnation in art. Work ranging from the 4th century to the present informs viewers of possible routes to spiritual redemption and the disasters that might befall moral transgressors.Item Exhibit Catalog, "The Birth of Celebrity Culture in the City of Lights" 2007(2007-02) Sik, SarahThe Birth of Celebrity Culture in the City of Lights examines the print culture of fin-de-siècle France to highlight a number of the earliest examples of the dynamic intersections of charisma with an era of mass consumption and of caricature with the emergence of the cause célèbre.Item Exhibit Catalog, "The Aesthetic Revolution: Periodicals and the New Art, 1890-1900" January 23-March 21, 2004(2004-01-23) Meza, Abinadi; Boudewyns, Deborah K. UltanThe Aesthetic Revolution: Periodicals and the New Art, 1890-1900 marks the first in a series of exhibitions that will highlight the special collections of rare art books in the James Ford Bell Library. This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to view together for the first time the library’s collection of European and American nineteenth century illustrated journals.Item Exhibit Catalog, "The House and the Book, February 18-March 25, 2005"(2005-02-18) Green, MidoriThis exhibit explores books on domestic architecture and how various modes of representation and book formats serve their intended audience. The exhibit is organized into five categories, based on similar themes of representation: Treatises and Topology, Manuals, Romantic Views, Economy, and Photographs and Models.Item Exhibit Catalog for, "Ritual of Reading: Religion and the Illustrated Book," March 22-May 14, 2010(2010-03-22) Sienkiewicz, EmilyThroughout history, the illustrated book has served a significant role in the practice of religion and the expression of religious beliefs. Ranging from bibles to codices to examples of great literature and reproductions of master paintings, the books in the Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Book Collection and the University's Special Collections demonstrate the key role art and artists play in the cultivation and promotion of religion, faith and spirituality.