REEES | Beinecke Object Study Seminar with Justin Willson
The Object Study Seminar series invites scholars to present their approach to research and teaching with primary sources in a hands-on, interactive setting. Justin Willson, Assistant Professor in the History of Art at Yale will introduce participants to materials from the Beinecke Library’s collection of early Balkan and Slavic books and maps. Print tran son sformed nearly every facet of image production in the Balkans and East Slavic world between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This session will introduce early book and looseleaf prints with a focus on process. From the master woodblock printer Il’ia in L’viv to the Greco-Slavic engravers in Karyes on Mount Athos, to the revivalist lithographers in Moscow, to the book illuminators who imitated printed frontispieces in manuscripts, this session will provide a hands-on opportunity to practice connoisseurship. The seminar will be a venue for participants to explore the materials firsthand and discuss their function, purpose, and pedagogical potential in the context of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
This event is only open to the Yale Community. It is not open to the general public. Registration is required to attend this seminar. Space is limited.
Please Register: https://cglink.me/2dA/r2321162
This event is sponsored by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program and the Beinecke Library.
Please note that the location is in Sterling Memorial Library and not Beinecke Library.
Speakers
Justin Willson is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art department, where he teaches on Byzantine and early Slavic art in a multiplicity of media, including panel painting, book illumination, ivory carving, and mural painting. Before coming to Yale Willson worked as curator at the Icon Museum and Study Center; prior to that, he held the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History Leadership at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University.