Kay Amert papers and publications, 1989-2007
Scope and Contents
Contains Kay Amert's files on her publications and other academic papers or presentations. These files consist of research notes, drafts, correspondence, printing proofs, and illustrations organized by publication or presentation. These publications include: "Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne," "The Phenomenon of the Gros Canon," "Formation of an Apparatus of Literacy," "Origins of the French Old Style: The Roman and Italic Types of Simon de Colines," "Origins of the Garamond Style: The Types of Simon de Colines," "The Aldine Hypothesis Revisited," "A Commentary on Geofroy Tory's Champ Fluery," "Digital Comparison of Letterforms," "A Renaissance Font: Paris, 1516," "Medical Publishing in the Renaissance," "Duet for the Design of Letters: Geofroy Tory and Simon de Colines," a review of "By His Own Hand: The Biography of Dard Hunter" for the Bibliographical Society of America, "Reconsidering the Scholar-Printers of the Sixteenth Century: Estienne and Colines," "Rereading the Contract of Literacy: Typography and the Intellect," and "In a Renaissance Idiom: The Hours of Tory and Colines." Other items include notes and drafts for Ph.D. seminars, convention panels for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and other presentations. Materials date from between 1989 and 2007.
Dates
- 1989-2007
Creator
- Amert, Kay (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English, French, Italian, and Latin.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from Kay Amert research papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Kay Amert (1947-2008) was a professor and typographer at the University of Iowa who studied French Renaissance printing and typography.
Kay Amert was born November 11, 1947, in Madison, South Dakota, to Henry and Arlene Amert. Amert grew up in Madison, and graduated from Madison High School in 1965, going on to attend the University of Iowa. In 1967, while a student at the University of Iowa, she established an imprint, the Seamark Press. Upon completion of her degree, she became the director of the Typography Laboratory at the University of Iowa in 1972. She held this position and taught at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication until she retired in 2006. Amert published six different articles during this time and was working on a book on Renaissance printer Simon de Colines when she died of cancer on September 5, 2008, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
Extent
10 folders
2 boxes
Arrangement
Material retained in its original order.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States