2008-09 VCU Libraries Exhibits
Rare works by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
The exhibit corresponded with the 16th Annual VCU Symposium on Architectural History and the Decorative Arts that celebrated the 500th anniversary of Palladio’s birth. Part I included books and related materials on the influence of Palladio in Virginia and in the United States. Part II included various editions of works by Palladio held in Special Collections and Archives. At right: Front piece to the edition of the Cole
Hoppus 1736 edition of Andrea |
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Tatana Kellner's "50 years of Silence"
Two display cases in the fourth floor corridor featured several artists' books produced from the Women's Studio Workshop, located in Rosendale, New York. Special Collections and Archives is a repository for the Women's Studio Workshop,the largest publisher of hand-printed and hand-bound artists' books in the United States. Click here to learn more about the VCU Book Art Collection. |
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Circa 1971 - Images of Houses on Park Avenue--VCU 40th Anniversary Exhibit
VCU celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008. The University was established in 1968 when the Medical College of Virginia merged with the Richmond Professional Institute. The exhibit includes several blown up photograph images of the Monroe Park Campus from the last 40 years and documents pertaining to VCU's inception.Visit Historic VCU for information and over 200 historic images of the University's history. |
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Works by Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
Special Collections and Archives houses one of the largest collections of American artist Edward Gorey's (1925-2000) books - over 50 titles and growing. Gorey's illustrations and stories are noted for their often macabre themes. For instance, in The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1963) Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet)and their untimely demise in rhyming didactic couplets - "E is for Ernest who choked on a peach. F is for Franny sucked dry by a leech." |
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Tarzan of the Apes
This exhibit on Tarzan features comic books, rare books, movie stills, and various reference materials collected by Special Collections and Archives.Cover of DC Magazine's AUG 1973 comic book Tarzan - one of nearly 30,000 comic books held by Special Collections and Archives. The official Tarzan site is here. Visit our Comic Arts Collection home page for more information about our comic book collection. |
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Hispanic Heritage Month
In celebration of the Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15), materials from the collections on display illustrate contributions from the Latino community to American and Virginia history and culture. These materials include a display drawn from the Comic Arts Collection features the works of the Hernandez brothers, graphic artists known for their collaboration on the alternative comic, Love & Rockets. |
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Gay & Lesbian Collection
In conjunction with the release and book signing for Lesbian and Gay Richmond, by Beth Marschak and Alex Lorch, this display of Lesbian - related materials drawn from several collections housed in the department. |
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Manga Comic Book Collection
Manga is the Japanese word for comics. It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels that were originally published in Japan. However, Manga is often considered an artistic and storytelling style that can also encompass non-Japanese works. |
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Richmond Zine Collection
This exhibit focused on the Richmond Zine Collection held in Special Collections and Archives. The department has nearly 100 Richmond titles of zines produced from the 1980s through today. |
Richmond Poets Against the War! vol.I., Issue I [2002] |
Will Eisner Award Collection
Will Eisner (1917-2005), an acclaimed comics writer and artist, revolutionized the world of comic books twice - first with the 1939 comic The Spirit, a gritty, adult-themed newspaper comics insert, and again in 1978 with one of the first modern graphic novels, A Contract with God, and other Tenement Stories. In between he and his company, American Visuals Corporation, showed that comics could be used as popular educational tools with such works as Comics and Sequential Art and the U.S. Army Publication, PS Magazine. In 1988, the comics community created the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards because of Eisner’s contribution to the appreciation and study of comics. James Branch Cabell Library’s Special Collections and Archives has been the repository for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Archives since 2005. |
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