[Thanks to Karen Nipps, Head of the Rare Books Team, for contributing this post.] European graphic artists of the early 20th century clamored to distance themselves from the decorative excesses of Art Nouveau. In Germany, the poster style “plakastil” was particularly popular, with its emphasis on stark combinations of flat colors enhanced with simple, bold…
Romancing the Stone
[Thanks to Ward Project Music Cataloger Andrea Cawelti for contributing this post.] Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), actor and enthusiastic playwright, became consumed with finding a cheaper method of printing his own plays after discovering the expense of letterpress and engraving processes. He experimented with various kinds of etching on stone, which he later abandoned in favor…
New on OASIS in August
Finding aids for 14 newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including photo albums of Virginia Woolf and the papers of the Baker Street Irregulars….