Book Illustration and Art

Antiquarian bookseller William Reese discusses John James Audubon, Yale's two copies of his Birds of America elephant folios, and his contribution to American natural history. Birds of America is in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library collection.

Nanette Stahl, Curator of the Judaica Collection at Yale University Library, discusses "The Passover Haggadah: Modern Art in Dialogue with an Ancient Text", an exhibition of modern illustrated Haggadot at Sterling Memorial Library.

Curator Nanette Stahl guides listeners through an exhibit at Sterling Memorial Library celebrating the art of the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract.

Ways of Seeing, a collaboration between the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery, is a series of netcasts featuring Yale students and faculty interpreting works of art.

Ways of Seeing, a collaboration between the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery, is a series of netcasts featuring Yale students and faculty interpreting works of art.

This exhibition includes a broad display of books exploring the ways in which poets, publishers, artists, and printers have navigated the intersection of poetry and art in printed formats. The exhibition considers the ways poetry and book arts interact and connect, their shared context, and their potentially conflicting functions; materials on display explore questions of verbal and visual metaphor making, emphasizing the roles of creative and collaborative processes involved in uniting image, verse, and print.

Curator Timothy Young discusses the Beinecke Library's new book: Drawn to Enchant: Original Children’s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection.