COLOUR

very inception. Popular services such as the Kindle have provided us with ever-greater numbers of books online and have led some commentators to predict the eventual death of the printed book.

Yet, recent years has also seen an increased interest in ‘the book’ from creative practitioners, who have sought to co-opt its form and conventions as locations for their own work. Practitioners such as Stephen Doyle and Frank Chimero have redeployed its form for sculptural ends. David Bellingham has approached the book as an historical object that reflects a particular material culture. Both Harland Miller and Douglas Coupland subvert the book’s typographic elements. Frances Stark alters paperback books as a subversive act of social comment.

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Special Collections Reading Room @ The Whisky Bond

At the end of this workshop, your students will be able to:

• Understand a number of key terms and phrases for the printed book and employ them in their own critical writing and research; • Analyse how the book is constructed and identify its key constituent parts; • Critically evaluate competing definitions of

‘the book’; • Analyse how virtualisation can affect both our reading and reception of the book; • Identify and compare different approaches to the use of the book in creative practice; • Assess the relevance of the book to their own creative practice.

For further information or to arrange a session contact Duncan Chappell – d.chappell@gsa.ac.uk This workshop introduces students to key models and theories of colour, as evidenced through original material held in the library’s historical collections.

GSA Library holds a number of 19th and early 20th century treatises on the science and application of colour and light, including volumes by Chevreul, Munsell, Ishihara, Carpenter, Church, Littlejohns, Rood, Benson, Merimee, Ostwald, Ward and others.

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Special Collections Reading Room @ The Whisky Bond

At the end of this workshop, your students will be able to:

• Understand how colour has been analysed and described in science and applied in art; • Recognise and describe several of the nomenclatures of colour that were developed in the 19th and 20th centuries; • Understand the relevance and importance of colour to their own creative practice.

For further information or to arrange a session contact Duncan Chappell – d.chappell@gsa.ac.uk