on friday, we went to the field trip to washington dc. it was my first time visiting the place. although i was very excited, in the morning i felt a bit unfocused because of the lots of work i left behind in my studio.we went to visit the rare collection room in the library at the national gallery, where the librarian had pulled the selection of books for us to see, and touch. last year, we went to the rare collection room in morgan library in nyc.
in short, it was an amazing selection. he showed us fist the book of hours, printed on vellum, bound in the beautiful red tinted leather. there is a book illustrated by leonardo da vinci, studies on the proportion of human body, archticture, etc. there is one done by albrecht durer: his famous signature is printed big on the title page. there are many other that were all fabulous. lots of great engravings and large scale etching plates of night scenes. there were books with beautiful chromo lithographs of all different kinds of brushes. i wish that i can describe better on everything one by one.
there were some contemporary artists books. the insect alphabet by anna hepler was one of them and it was such a sweet tiny book, incased in the clear plastic cube with a magnified glass. each insect's name is starting with each letter of alpharbet, and the image of insect is done with tiny etching.
afterwards we went to have lunch, and went around some museums around the mall. it was nice getting away from the studio, inspired by the different things.
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