The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Hosted ByNigel Beale

THE BIBLIO FILE is one of the world's leading podcasts about "the book" and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other certified bibliophiles.

Michele Rackham on Betty Sutherland and Canadian Book Design

Michele Rackham is a post doctoral fellow at Trent University. She is currently working on a digital catalogue raisonne of P.K. Irwin’s (a.k.a P.K. Page) artwork that will  accompany a print art book to be published by the Porcupine’s Quill. Rackham recently completed a PhD at McGill University. The title of her thesis is “Between the Lines, Interartistic Modernism in Canada 1930-1960.”

We met at Carleton University to talk about 20th Canadian book design, and the important work that artist Betty Sutherland did for Contact Press designing book covers during the 1950s.

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