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Category Archives: Art at the Burns Library
Meaningful symbols from a new Burns class format
In early October, Burns Library hosted our first hybrid class, Prof. Lisa Kessler’s Introduction to Digital Art, which normally meets synchronously online. Some local students volunteered to come in person and work with original format materials, and we paired them … Continue reading
Posted in Art at the Burns Library, Instruction Program, Uncategorized
Tagged Student Work, symbolism, Tarot Cards
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Stained Glass Windows of Imagination
On a gray, overcast day in early February, the Burns Library Instruction Team hosted Prof. Jane Cassidy’s intermediate Digital Art: Print Based Media class for an active learning session centered on stained glass design and fabrication. A major class assignment … Continue reading
Florence Nightingale Bicentennial: Year of the Nurse and Midwife
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO), has designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife “to celebrate the work … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library
Tagged florence nightingale, nursing
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A DIY Encyclopedia: G. William Patten’s iconography and symbolism notes
If you are on the hunt for a DIY encyclopedia, look no further than Glancy William Patten’s personal papers. G. William Patten, a local Boston artist, kept meticulous notes about symbolism and meaning ranging from animals to persons to flags … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library
Tagged Boston artist, G. William Patten, symbolism, symbols
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A Room of His Own: Flann O’Brien at Work
It’s common for archival collections to contain the manuscripts and typescripts of writers’ works, as well as notes, galley proofs, and correspondence. These materials can give insight into a writer’s process, the evolution of a written work, and the life … Continue reading
Wifredo Lam and Graham Greene
Over my past three years working as Assistant Conservator at the Burns Library, one project has been a constant: jacketing the Graham Greene collection. On Monday, March 26th, 2018, I finally wrapped the final dust jacket in a sheet of … Continue reading
Cherish the Memory: Conservation at the Burns Library
In the final semester of my Boston College career, I have had the good fortune of serving as a Conservation Assistant under Barbara Adams Hebard in the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections conservation lab. As … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library, Conservation, Jesuitica, Rare books
Tagged boston college history department, Burns blog, burns library blog, burns library conservation, burns library elizabeth jennings, classes burns library, conservation, elizabeth jennings papers burns library, jesuitica collection burns library, making history public
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Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints
As the Bookbuilders of Boston intern at the Burns Library this year, I’ve spent most of my time working with and learning about the Japanese Prints Collection. While the collection has a large number of prints that were produced during the Tokugawa … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library
Tagged bookbuilders of boston, bookbuilders of boston intern, bookbuilders of boston internship, burns blog woodblock prints, burns library, burns library blog, creative prints, japanese art, japanese woodblock prints, john j burns library blog woodblock prints, new prints
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Exhibitions Update: Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Worshipper of Light”
The general outlines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s life are fairly well known—that living in Hampstead he attended Dr. Dyne’s Highgate School (becoming a Cholmeleian, named after Highgate’s first headmaster, Sir. Roger Cholmeley) where he won a scholarship to the prestigious … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library, Exhibits & Events
Tagged 125th anniversary, among the fire folk, archives and manuscripts burns library, burns blog boston college, burns library blog, burns library blog poet, catholic poets, g. m. hopkins jesuit poet, gerard manley hopkins, gerard manley hopkins exhibit, hopkins family, hopkins family papers burns library, influential poet hopkins, jesuit poet, jude nixon hopkins exhibit, poet hopkins, worshipper of light
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Ukiyo-e: Japanese Woodblock Prints
As the Bookbuilders of Boston intern at the Burns Library for this year, I’ve been able to learn about the variety of collections housed within the library and spend some of my time focusing on the works that interest me … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Art at the Burns Library
Tagged bookbuilders of boston burns library, bookbuilders of boston intern, bookbuilders of boston internship, burns blog boston college, burns blog woodblock prints, burns library blog, japanese art, japanese woodblock prints, john j burns library blog woodblock prints, ukiyo-e
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