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The above quote is from Richard Minsky\u00a0(Class of 1970 GS). Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n
It was fall, 1968, the week before classes began. I was about to start Graduate School in Economics. Exploring the campus I wandered into the Annmary Brown Memorial, which then housed a collection of some 2,000 incunabula. The bindings hypnotized me, and after a while the curator came out and started a conversation. He sent me to the Rockefeller Library, basement B, to the workshop of Brown’s master bookbinder, Daniel Gibson Knowlton.<\/p>\n
It was an amazing studio, and within a few minutes Dan signed me up for his class in the Extension Division. By the end of the first semester I was hooked, and spent most of my time at the Rock, either in the bindery or at a carrel researching my thesis. In June I left with the thesis submitted and several leather bindings completed. Back in New York City I continued in Economics with the Graduate Faculty of The New School, and was awarded a contract to bind books for the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum. Putting all that together in 1974 I started a not-for-profit organization named Center for Book Arts, with workshop facilities, classes, and a gallery. One of the first exhibitions was The Bindings of Daniel Gibson Knowlton.<\/p>\n
Now the Richard Minsky Archive is at Yale<\/a>, where a retrospective exhibition was held in 2010<\/a>, the Center for Book Arts<\/a> is thriving, its model has been copied by others around the country, and it all started in basement B of the Rock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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