SHARP News

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This is the Spring & Summer 2006 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi. CONTENTS: CREATIVITY & THE LAW; SHARP KOLKATA 2006; TEXT MATTERS; BOOKS IN THE CITY; SHARP SOUTH AFRICA 2007; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; MITCHELL PRIZE 2006; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; OBSERVING TRENDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: Creativity and the Law: Copyright, Censorship, Authorship, Publishing (CREATIVITY & THE LAW), by Eli MacLaren (p. 1); SHARP KOLKATA 2006, by Peter Kornicki (pp. 1-2); Ink on Screen, Light on Paper: Text Matters, Inaugural International Conference of the Danish Book History Forum, Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark, Copenhagen, 20-21 April 2006 (TEXT MATTERS), by Charles Lock (pp. 3-4); BOOKS IN THE CITY, by Geneviève de Viveiros, Jenny Gilbert, Ruth-Ellen St. Onge (pp. 4-5); A World Elsewhere: Orality, Manuscript and Print in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures, Centre for the Book, Cape Town, 2-4 April 2007 (SHARP SOUTH AFRICA 2007) (pp. 5-6); The Poetry of Shijo Surimono, Joel and Carole Bernstein, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 17 September-11 December 2005 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Kay Shelton (p. 6); Six Centuries of Master Bookbinding, Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 10 February-29 April 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Craig Kallendorf (pp. 6-7); Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Celebrating Fifty Years, Grolier Club, New York, 22 February-29 April 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Larry E. Sullivan (pp. 7-8); Kelmscott Press Book Display, Lilly House, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 25 September 2005-22 January 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Kay Shelton (pp. 8-9); BOOK REVIEWS, by Carl Spadoni, Stephen R. Reimer, Andrew Piper, Hilde De Weerdt, Lindsay Gledhill, Alan Bryson, David Mallia, M.O. Grenby, S.L. Harrison, Ann R. Hawkins, Peter Kornicki, Douglas Martin, Andrew Hadfield, Joseph Dennis, Charles Johanningsmeier, Martyn Ould, Barbara Mittler, Margaret F. Nichols, Consuela Metzger, Betty Hagglund, David Chambers, Adam Rounce, Martin J. Heijdra, Jane Potter, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Peter Know-Shaw, Elizabeth Falsey (pp. 10-26); The Books of Venice: A Conference on the Book in Venice, Venice, Italy, 9-10 March 2007 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 26); Communication and Information in the 18th Century: The Habsburg Monarchy, Austrian National Library, Vienna, 26-28 April 2008 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 26); OBSERVING TRENDS, by Alexis Weedon (pp. 26, 28).