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Talwin Morris I | Treasures of GSA Library
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Help Rebuild our Collections. Treasures of GSA Library. January 29, 2013. June 27, 2015. Talwin Morris (1865-1911) is an important figure in the history and development of Glasgow Style design at the turn of the 20th century. He knew many people who attended the Glasgow School of Art, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh who he recommended as an architect to publisher Walter Blackie. The result of that commission is the celebrated Hill House in Helensburgh. Discover our Talwin Morris Collection. Many than...
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Collections | Treasures of GSA Library
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Help Rebuild our Collections. Treasures of GSA Library. Glasgow School of Art Library is lucky to hold a number of important special collections. These include rare and valuable titles, titles relating to the history of the School, and examples of contemporary creative practice. Our special collections are organised into thematic hubs, and you can discover more about the hubs from these pages. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Glasgow School of Art.
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Alasdair Gray Donation | Treasures of GSA Library
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Help Rebuild our Collections. Treasures of GSA Library. May 1, 2015. June 26, 2015. We have recently been gifted by Alasdair Gray a significant collection of first editions, uncorrected proofs and foreign editions of his novels, plays and poems, along with his library of books that he read avidly as a child and which influenced his later writing and art. Bertrand Russel’s Wisdom of the West, London, Macdonald, 1959 gifted to Gray by his father and decorated by Gray in black marker. Enter your comment here.
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Mackintosh Book Designs | Treasures of GSA Library
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Help Rebuild our Collections. Treasures of GSA Library. June 29, 2015. August 20, 2015. Following a recent research enquiry from our friends at 78 Derngate. The Northampton home designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1916, today we post on an aspect of Mackintosh’s work that is still somewhat overlooked: his designs for books. Who was then Art Director at Blackie’s publishing house. It is this introduction which led to him receiving the commission to design Blackie’s home, the Hill House. The design to...
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Ian Hamilton Finlay | Treasures of GSA Library
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Help Rebuild our Collections. Treasures of GSA Library. June 18, 2015. July 3, 2015. Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 2006) was a creator of polymath ability: a prolific visual poet, artist, and the designer behind. A sculptural garden set at the foot of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. Throughout June and July, the Victoria Miro Gallery. A View to the Temple. Discover our Ian Hamilton Finlay Collection. A selection of prints from the Wild Hawthorn Press held by GSA Library. As can be seen in pieces such as.
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Colour Studies | Treasures of GSA Library
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Help Rebuild our Collections. Treasures of GSA Library. March 3, 2015. July 15, 2015. On 18th February 2015 our Academic Liaison Librarian Duncan Chappell gave a lecture to Glasgow Colour Studies Group. On resources for the study of colour within our rare books collections.Thankfully, many of these important books escaped the Mackintosh Fire. And Duncan presented a particularly colourful selection of these to the group. The Art of Decorative Design. Principles of Decorative Design. 1925) In the library is.
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The Electric Grandmother (Revisited) – *Article and Video. September 1, 2016. September 29, 2016. By Eric P. Gulliver. Plot: A trio of children, traumatized by the death of their mother, and their father get a very special robot grandmother to assist them. It’s a joke in my family that I have no memories before my teenage years. Don’t ask Eric, he won’t remember,. How can they do that? Does Grandma have to plug herself in in the basement too? Did she come from a factory? Shoot orange juice out of her fin...
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July 2016
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Comics, Costumes, and Candles: The Makings of History at the Providence Public Library. July 31, 2016. August 1, 2016. The Providence Sunday Wipeout. A spooky scented candle. A black-and-white photograph of a man emerging, phantom-like, from a cloud of steam. A hand-drawn word search. An enormous chromolithograph of the puppet-like false head of a pre-Incan mummy. A screen-printed, articulated paper robot with chicken legs. How Did This Happen? As part of our annual exhibition and program series. Others&...
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