Museum to host art of bookbinding talk via Zoom Nov. 5

Delaware Art Museum will present “Poetry Nouveau: Michael Field and the Art of the Book,” a free talk, from 12 to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 5, via Zoom. 

Guest speaker will be Ana Parejo Vadillo, the 2024 Amy P. Goldman Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies at the Delaware Art Museum and University of Delaware. A reader in Victorian literature and culture at Birkbeck, University of London, Vadillo is currently in Delaware carrying out research on the queer poets Michael Field, which was the joint pseudonym of aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper. Vadillo is examining Field’s relationship to Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers, the Arts and Crafts movement and decadence.

This talk will focus on one aspect of Vadillo’s study: the art of bookbinding, which made Field’s books not only works of literature but also beautiful objects.

For more information and to register, go to delart.org.