Wellesley college book arts program

Another milestone for the Book Arts Lab was the creation of an endowed position for the Book Arts Program Director, held by Ruffin, thanks to a generous gift from three alumnae.

The fact that the lab is based in the library instead of in, say, the English department or art department, means that Ruffin is better able to reach into many different departments across campus.

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For the most part, this new attention has been directed at Pasolini's cinema, the part of his multifarious cultural activity for which he is best known outside Italy. Pasolini, however, was extremely active in different areas of Italian cultural life. Before dedicating himself to cinema, he had made his name as a poet, novelist and theorist of language and literature, and in the course of his career also achieved fame as a film theorist, dramaturg, and journalist.

This book aims to redress the imbalance by directing critical attention to these relatively neglected areas of Pasolini studies. In particular, the book focuses on the question of narrative form that invests all of Pasolini's writings. Starting from Pasolini's first encounter with the question of narrative form that in his early Friulan novels, author David Ward then follows the series of experiments that characterize Pasolini's writings through the Roman novels, his language, literature and film theory, journalism, and theater writings up to Petrolio Oil , his unfinished and posthumously published novel.

The book argues that the central concern of Pasolini's writings is the attempt to develop a narrative form that responds to two specific demands: on the one hand, a "possessive," epistemologically rigorous narrative form that enables us to analyze and know the world; and on the other, an open-ended nonpossessive narrative form sensitive to the fragility, integrity, and poeticity of the phenomena of the world and which resists the heavy-handedness of conventional narrative form.

The book offers readers in-depth analyses of all Pasolini's novels, including for the first time in English a detailed analyses of Petrolio, which has received no critical attention outside Italy.

The part of Pasolini's writing that has received the most critical attention has been his film theory. As well as offering a panorama of Italian, British, French, and American readings of these difficult essays, ward argues that it is necessary to reconsider the role ascribed to what Pasolini calls "film," the process by which a narrative account of reality is put together.

Ward also offers detailed analyses of Pasolini's six verse tragedies. The book concludes with the suggestion that Pasolini's best attempt at combining the conflict demands that the notions of "film" and "cinema" produced in his film writings comes with his "Manifesto for a New Theater," which has previously been neglected by scholars. Drawing on texts from the literature, film journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.

Arguing against the overly simplistic view of the Italian resistance to Fascism that has at time emerged from historiography, literature and films of the immediate postwar years, this book focuses on the tensions that riddled and ultimately undermined the unity of intent of Italy's anti-Fascist political parties - grouped together in the alliance known as the Committee for National Liberation. Housed on the 4th floor of Clapp Library and Pendleton West, the Book Arts Program invites you to explore letterpress printing, papermaking, and bookbinding.

Book Arts at Wellesley is focused on introducing students to the art of bookmaking through historical and hands-on study. Students learn about every step of the book construction process, from making the paper to printing the text to binding it all together. Whether you're here to learn more about the history of bookmaking, specific techniques, or looking for a career in book arts, this guide is here to help!

Book Arts students have a chance to present their own work as part of the Ruhlman and Tanner conferences. One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis is a vital force in the cultural life of Wellesley College.

Its mission is to create an environment that encourages visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement with the arts in academics and in life. Organized by the Department of Music, the Concert Series brings world-class performers to campus,complementing the department's academic offerings and augmenting the cultural life of the College and surrounding community.

The series features both visiting artists and members of the performing faculty. Every year, the Art Department brings guest lecturers, exhibits, films, and visiting artists to the campus and community.