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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Dear Colleagues,<BR><BR>I wonder if I might draw your attention to an event being organized by the Chapin Library, Williams College and the Clark Art Institute, on Saturday 18 September 2004. <BR><BR>In conjunction with the exhibition: The Book as a Work of Art: Count Harry Kessler and the Cranach Press, now showing at WCMA and at the Chapin Library of Rare Books, we are organizing a colloquium, called "Art, The Book and the World" . As part of this event we are holding public events on Saturday afternoon, to which we would like to invite all interested students, staff and members of the public. <BR><BR>The Program for that afternoon's events is the following:<BR><BR>1:30pm to 2:15pm, WCMA: Gallery talk by John Dieter Brinks (the author of the exhibition catalogue) on prints by Aristide Maillol and John Gordon Craig in the exhibition. <BR><BR>2.30pm to 5pm, Griffin Hall 3: Public Forum on Count Harry Kessler and Weimar Germany.<BR>This will include a talk on Kessler and America by Laird Easton (Author of The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler (2002)) and a discussion on the many aspects of Kessler's involvement with art and culture of his times by all the participants in the colloquium, who are: <BR>John Dieter Brinks, Laird Easton, Thomas Föhl, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Alexandra Garbarini, Mark Haxthausen, Reinhold Heller and Gunnar Kaldewey<BR>5:00pm-6:30pm Wine reception at the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Stetson Hall and chance to view the major portion of the exhibit.<BR>Admission is free to all events.<BR>I attach a PDF file of the event poster, and would be very grateful if you were able to print it up and post it on appropriate noticeboards, etc. (apologies if it appears upside down on your screen viewer!) We would also be grateful if faculty members could bring it to the attention of students in relevant classes. <BR>Many thanks<BR>Mark Ledbury<BR><<Kessler Forum.pdf>> <BR><BR>Dr. Mark Ledbury<BR>Associate Director, Research and Academic Program<BR>The Clark Art Institute<BR>225 South Street, Williamstown<BR>MA 01267 USA<BR>mledbury@clarkart.edu<BR>Tel: 413 458 0536<BR>Fax: 413 458 1873</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>