[Athena] tr: FYI France: typography and Europe

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> > Message du 16/09/12 19:50
> > De : "H-France" 
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> > Objet : FYI France: typography and Europe
> > 
> > 
> > From: kessler49 AT gmail.com [kessler49 AT gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jack Kessler [kessler AT well.com]
> > 
> > FYI France: typography and Europe
> > 
> > If you will be in or near Lyon, in October, or even if you won't: a
> > conference plus a "day of study" -- of interest to anyone fascinated
> > with The Book, certainly, but also anyone interested in Victoriana, or
> > machinery, or design, or history, Europe, culture, industrial
> > evolution, telecommunications, just plain communications whether
> > "tele-" or not, newspapers, placards, paper, cities,
> > transitions-in-media, personal _expression_, tools... aand very much
> > including The Digital, and The Internet... --
> > 
> > "Announcing: a day for studying our typographic patrimony, in
> > conjunction with the congress of the Association of European Printing
> > Museums.
> > 
> > "The Musée de l’Imprimerie, Lyon, welcomes, October 11-13, the
> > congress of the Association of European Printing Museums / AEPM, which
> > includes over sixty printing museums in Europe.
> > 
> > "In conjunction with these meetings, a day of study devoted to
> > techniques of conservation, preservation, and the use of typographic
> > patrimony, will take place on Friday, October 12.
> > 
> > "The presentations:
> > 
> > * James Mosely, Professor in the Department of Typography and Graphic
> > Communication, University of Reading, United Kingdom -- "The state of
> > typographical heritage: preservation, study and evaluation - an
> > overview of European typographical collections."
> > 
> > * Guy Hutsebaut, specialist in graphic technique, Musée
> > Plantin-Moretus, Anvers, Belgium, with Patrick Storme, Department of
> > the Conservation of Metallic Objects, Artesis University College,
> > Anvers -- "Research on corrosion of lead printing types in the
> > collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum."
> > 
> > * Richard Southall, specialist in digital typography, United Kingdom :
> > "There’s no body there: conserving dematerialised type."
> > 
> > * Alice Savoie, font designer, France / United Kingdom --
> > "International cross-currents in typeface design during the
> > phototypesetting era: the value to researchers of public and private
> > typographic archives."
> > 
> > * Andrea De Pasquale, Directeur of the Bibliothèque nationale
> > Braidense de Milan and of the Bibliothèque universitaire de Turin --
> > "Exploring 18th century typographical production through the
> > unexploited archives of Giambattista Bodoni."
> > 
> > * Mathieu Lommen, Conservateur des collections graphiques,
> > Bibliothèque de l’université d’Amsterdam -- "The value of
> > typographical archives for publications and teaching."
> > 
> > * Charlotte Delannée, Johan Seivering, Andréas Schweitzer, Association
> > pour le patrimoine industriel, Suisse -- "Towards a systematic and
> > semantic inventory of printing heritage materials."
> > 
> > "A publication -- La lettre en Europe, Type in Europe -- will
> > accompany this Congrès 2012...
> > 
> > "This day-of-study, which will take place at the Musée de l’Imprimerie
> > [in Lyon], is open to all who are interested in typographical
> > heritage, to the extent that places are available.
> > 
> > "Tarifs : 25 € pour la seule journée de conférences. 65 € avec
> > cocktail (18 h) + dîner (20 h) avec l’ensemble des délégués des musées
> > de l’imprimerie européens.
> > 
> > "Chèque à l’ordre de l’Association des Amis du Musée de l’imprimerie,
> > à envoyer avec ses coordonnées complètes aux,
> > 
> > Amis du Musée de l’imprimerie
> > 13 rue de la Poulaillerie
> > 69002 Lyon
> > France
> > 
> > Contact: bernadette.moglia AT mairie-lyon.fr
> > Musée de l’imprimerie: www.imprimerie.lyon.fr
> > 13 rue de la Poulaillerie, 69002 Lyon
> > 
> > http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/imprimerie/sections/fr/aepm_prog/aepm_prog
> > 
> > 
> > And now a Note: about Europe...
> > 
> > One of life's more interesting pleasures is to linger,
> > fly-on-the-wall, at one of these European cultural events, such as the
> > one announced and described above.
> > 
> > There is a special energy, in this place so distinguished by the
> > extreme variety in its many different approaches to life. To watch the
> > mingling of representatives from County Sligo, the Mezzogiorno,
> > Catalonia, al Andaluz, Silesia, Flanders, Wales and Bretagne and
> > Savoie and all the rest, as they assemble to discuss, debate, argue
> > animatedly about their shared European Patrimony.
> > 
> > To an Outsider, particularly one from a larger and perhaps more
> > unitary place -- the US or China or India, Indonesia, Australia,
> > Russia, Brazil -- or from a place far older -- Japan -- modern Europe
> > is the oddest combination of differences and similarities.
> > 
> > The place is tiny, Europe, as any visitor from the Great US Midwest,
> > or the vast Russian Steppes, or the Outback's Alice Springs, or the
> > Sovereign State of Texas, will attest -- as a senator from Texas
> > famously advised a US President, regarding a wartime speed limit of 55
> > mph, "Mis-ter President, you can't _get_ anywhere in Texas going only
> > 55 miles per hour!"
> > 
> > European autopiste & autostrada & autobahn speedsters regularly
> > traverse their entire "continent" at speeds far in excess of that --
> > these days still, and speed limits set recently in some places
> > notwithstanding -- haphazard enforcement, it's a difficult & dangerous
> > duty, I remember the French police chasing them in police sports
> > cars....
> > 
> > You can cross an entire European nation -- with its own unique
> > languages and traditions and cultures, all above-all different from
> > its nearest neighbors -- in the time it takes to get from Alice
> > Springs to Nowhere, or around or through Los Angeles or Tokyo, or from
> > Shanghai to its suburbs on a non-gridlocked-day in China.
> > 
> > So to such an outsider, someone from Omaha or Osaka -- or these days
> > more likely Suchow or Mumbai, on one of those whirlwind "If it's
> > Tuesday this must be Belgium" packaged-tour initial visits -- little
> > Europe might seem a unified whole, similar people doing similar things
> > in similar ways.
> > 
> > But then you begin to spot the differences --
> > 
> > First, languages: in Tamil Nadu, everywhere in that beautiful place
> > except in the centers of the biggest cities, they speak, well, Tamil
> > -- not even Hindi, too much -- while in Europe at any gathering
> > everyone speaks several.
> > 
> > Then, technique: in the UK they still drive on the Wrong Side -- I
> > hope the Scots won't change that... chaos at Hadrian's Wall... -- I
> > have a very funny photo on my Pinterest "Whaat?" board of, "The first
> > day in Sweden they switched from driving on the left to driving on the
> > right".
> > 
> > Then, food: I imagine "breakfast" in Perth and Yarraville, that's
> > 2000+ Australian miles, is pretty much the same -- but two neighboring
> > villages in any given European countryside bake their morning bread
> > very differently, as any motorcycle-riding visitor there can attest --
> > a difference maintained very deliberately in Europe, I'm told,
> > "artésenal" licensing and "Brussels" uniformities notwithstanding.
> > 
> > But back to the meeting-room, and that upcoming European "congrès"...
> > 
> > I always have been amazed at the variety of approach, in any given
> > European meeting. It is a variety which made Luigi Barzini proud (The
> > Europeans, 1983). It comes out greatly at any cultural event: poets,
> > painters, musicians -- there is less in-common, in a European event,
> > than there is in any similar event I've ever attended anywhere else.
> > It's very stimulating, makes one pause and Think Different. So I hope
> > there'll always be a Europe, at least to make us monolithic
> > globalizing giants remember to think, "variety!"
> > 
> > This particular European event should be fascinating -- like any event
> > arranged by the Institut d'Histoire du Livre / IHL -- or Lyon's
> > equally-excellent Musée de l'Imprimerie, or its richly-endowed
> > Bibliothèque Municipale.
> > 
> > n.b. that last safeguards, among many other "wonderful things", an ms.
> > in their collection from the library of no less than Charlemagne...
> > 800 a.d., Alcuin et al., imagine!... -- see Bob Peckham's site:
> > Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online --
> > http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml -- and for mss. at
> > the BMLyon itself, http://florus.bm-lyon.fr/index.php.
> > 
> > Bonne lecture,
> > 
> > Jack Kessler, kessler AT well.com
> > 
> > 
> > --oOo--
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