'Building and Rebuilding
1989-1999' exhibit opens in Green Library's Bing Wing
The Stanford University
Libraries celebrates the reopening of the Bing Wing of
the Cecil H. Green Library with an exhibit,
"Building and Rebuilding 1989-1999: Collections and
Architecture for the 21st Century." The exhibit is
on display in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, on
the second floor of the library's west wing, and will run
through Jan. 12, 2000.
"Building and
Rebuilding" showcases Special Collections material
acquired within the last decade, during which the
libraries continued a program of collection development
in support of teaching and research, despite temporary
loss of space. A section of the exhibit focuses on the
restoration of the 1919 building, which was badly damaged
in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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Information:
Highlights of the more
than 100 books and manuscripts on display include:
A rare copy of Dlia
Golosa (for the voice) by Vladimir Maiakovsky, the
leading poet of the Russian Revolution, designed by El
Lissitzky and considered to be his most spectacular
achievement in book design and construction;
Working drafts for two
movements of Robert Schumann's Sonate IV (ca. 1837),
which he never completed and was long presumed lost;
Albrecht Dürer's Underweysung
der Messung, 1525, a practical manual for artists
that displays Dürer's extraordinary knowledge of
geometry, engineering, perspective, decoration and
typography;
Working journals and
correspondence of writers Tillie Olsen, Robert Creeley,
Allen Ginsberg, John Steinbeck, Denise Levertov, Lawrence
Eigner and Robert Pinsky;
An uncommon first edition
of poet Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Marilia de Dirceo
(1792), from a collection of more than 7,000 rare
Braziliana;
Douglas Engelbart's pocket
notebook containing notes on the "bug," perhaps
the earliest forerunner of the computer mouse invented by
Engelbart in 1965;
An 1864 diary kept by
Francis Wilbur Goodyear, a Union soldier imprisoned in
Andersonville;
Galileo Galilei's Difesa
. . . contro alle calunnie & imposture di Baldessar
Capra (1607), the original edition of his second
publication and his first published work on astronomy;
Sketchbook and
correspondence of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; and
A selection of
contemporary fine press books.
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hours, call 723-0931. SR
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