Exhibits at the University of Florida Libraries
Past Exhibits
Collateral materials from past exhibits, such as catalogs, posters, installation photographs, and object lists are available in the Exhibit Materials Collection within the UF Digital Collections.
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2010
Art of the Book: Binding, Illustration, and Typography
October 11 - December 15, 2010Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor
Curated by Rita Smith, John Freund, Ellen Knudson, and Nancy Poehlmann, Art of the Book focuses on the artistic aspects os a book rather than the text. Featuring leather tooling of covers and the evolution of 19th century publishers' book bindings, examples of foreedge painting, wood blocks and wood cut illustrations, early and fine press printing, and typography styles.
Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory
October 22 - December 8, 2010Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor
Rewriting the Book of Nature explores Charles Darwin’s vision—“from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved”—a vision that now forms the foundation of the biological sciences. Radical in sweep, This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health and the NIH Office of History.
ARTBOUND
September 1 - October 1, 2010Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor
ARTBOUND features contemporary works by students making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States.
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The Broadway Meloday: Musical Theatre Highlights from the Great White Way 1900-1950
March 8 - April 30, 2010Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor
Showcasing the creators, performers and productions of Broadway in the first half of the 20th Century, The Broadway Melody presents a rare selection of playbills, programs, posters, sheet music, photographs, video images and miscellaneous ephemera from the vast theatre holdings of the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts and the general Popular Culture Collection.
Carteles: The Efraín Barradas Collection of Mexican & Cuban Film Posters
January 15 - February 28, 2010Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor
This exhibition features selections from the Efraín Barradas Collection of Mexican & Cuban Film Posters collected and donated by Dr. Ramón A. Figueroa.
The collection, which is preserved and housed in the Popular Culture Collections of the Department of Special
and Area Studies Collections, consists of 378 film posters, lobby cards and window cards.
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