Barbara Korbel
Barbara Korbel is former Head of Book Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago and Collections and Exhibition Conservator at the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Korbel, Barbara
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Binding Beauty: Conserving a Collection of Japanese Printed Books
Barbara Korbel and Janice Katz
Description: Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago
Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago
The inhabitants of Japan’s large premodern cities were highly literate consumers of printed illustrated books. Records indicate that literacy levels were at 40 to 50 percent for men and about 15 percent for women by the 1860s, which included all samurai and a good number of peasants and merchants. Even if the...
Author
Barbara Korbel and Janice Katz
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright© 2005 The Art Institute of Chicago
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00032.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16605
Chapter subject tags:Art--Conservation and restorationArt museumsArt Institute of ChicagoPrints, Japanese