Since 1996, much of William Blake’s work has been available for free online at www.blakearchive.org, through the effort of Joseph Viscomi, the archive’s editor and co-creator. Viscomi will be on campus this Thursday talking about Blake’s work in our increasingly digital era.  Viscomi will give the 21^st annual Fox-Adler Lecture, titled Titled “Blake’s Enlightened Graphics:  Illuminated Books and New Technologies, in Gannett Auditorium at 5:15pm.

Viscomi, who earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University, has taught at UNC Chapel Hill since 1984. His research examines Blake’s techniques and the development of watercolor painting, print technology, and lyrical poetry in the Romantic period, focusing on works by major and minor figures such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Turner, Constable, Cozens, and Gilpin.

Skidmore’s Fox-Adler Lecture Series is named in honor of Norman M. Fox and the late Hannah Moriarta Adler, connoisseurs and collectors of rare books.  In 1967, Adler loaned her extensive collection of 19th-century books to Skidmore.  After her death in 1989, Fox and his family took charge of her collection and initiated a yearly Adler Lecture, which has become an annual occasion to discuss the importance of literature and art in the nineteenth century. In 2001, the event was renamed the Fox-Adler lecture, and in 2005, the Fox family gave the collection to Scribner Library. <via Scope>

Thursday Sept. 24th
Gannettt @ 5:15pm