A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering
Maxwell Library, 1st. floor cases
January 22 - March 27, 2019
A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Movable Book Society—a non-profit forum for artists, collectors, librarians and others who love, create, share and study three-dimensional and pop-up books. Each full-color pop-up card, produced in a variety of finishes on high quality stock, includes the artist’s image and their story of inspiration. The collection is housed in a custom clamshell box designed by Isabel Uria, includes a bonus pop-up card engineered by Bruce Foster, and features a brief history of The Movable Book Society by Ann Montanaro Staples, along with an introductory essay by collector-of-note Larry Seidman.
The Movable Book Society was established in 1993, when Bill Clinton was president of the United States, Beanie Babies were introduced and Rutgers University librarian Ann R. Montanaro published Pop-up and Movable Books: A Bibliography. The overwhelmingly positive feedback from collectors who purchased the book convinced her that there was abundant interest in the topic to form an organization of collectors, and thus she founded The Movable Book Society.
