{"id":4066,"date":"2016-09-30T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2016-10-04T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:54:31","slug":"new-addition-to-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2016\/09\/30\/new-addition-to-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"New addition to Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Opera<\/a>We recently acquired the work “Opera Mortis: The Works of Death; The Simulacra & Natural History of Death’s Labors & Hours of Work” published in 2016 by Michael Kuch.\u00a0\u00a0 The book is inspired by Les Simulachres & historiees faces de la Mort (1538) by Hans Holbein the Younger.\u00a0 The accordion-bound book has 24 pages of relief etchings and can be displayed as a 12-point star.\u00a0 It is an edition of 365.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Kuch<\/a> is a Hampshire alum who studied with Leonard Baskin during his time here and continued to work closely with Baskin after he left Hampshire, printing etchings in color for Baskin’s Gehenna Press.\u00a0 In 1994, he started his own press, Double Elephant Press.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Hampshire College Library Archives and Special Collections already owned a work by Kuch, Falling to Earth: Poems & Intaglios <\/a>(2002). \u00a0 He also generously donated a keepsake commemorating the 20th anniversary of his press, a gorgeous illuminated broadside of the book’s title, Illuminations<\/a> (2014).\u00a0 Email me\u00a0 at rbeckwith@hampshire.edu<\/a> if you’d like to see any of Michael Kuch’s books.<\/p>\n

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We recently acquired the work “Opera Mortis: The Works of Death; The Simulacra & Natural History of Death’s Labors & Hours of Work” published in 2016 by Michael Kuch.\u00a0\u00a0 The book is inspired by Les Simulachres & historiees faces de la Mort (1538) by Hans Holbein the Younger.\u00a0 The accordion-bound …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":4071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21714,37110,36502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-hfj-library","category-collections","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}