Today we're talking about the exhibit in the
art library that showcases selfies in art
history and that idea is really connected
to the idea of self portraiture throughout
art history and so what we've pulled out are
a variety of books from the rare book room
here at they University of Louisville's Art
Library and we wanted to show people how the
current trend of selfies is really related
to a very historical kind of phenomenon in
art history.
Selfies are something that play a huge part
in our visual culture and that people are
really familiar with so we thought it would
be a fun way to get people involved with our
library by taking a picture of them self with
their favorite book, just kind of a way to
enter into a discourse with us and with our
materials here and share ideas about what
people are interested in.
We want people to know that we have amazing
books in our library and many of them in fact
are held in the rare book room which is not
a place that is open to the public but things
are available for request so we like to encourage
people to explore what we have and request
the rare books if they'd like to look at them.
So what we wanted to do is we wanted to highlight
the kind of undiscovered treasures that people
may not know about in our library.
