Exhibit | What鈥檚 in the Cards? The art of play and games in the 成人VR视频 Library Collections
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Enjoy the art of play in this selection of games from the 成人VR视频 Collections.
Games can unite players or divide them. They can build common interest, edify, and entertain. Early tabletop and card games often provided ways to play your way to learning. Whether educational, moral, or purely for entertainment, games provide a rich history of design, artwork, and typography.
In the 19th century, board games and playing cards were excellent showpieces of the many innovations in both printing and manufacturing. The middle class was emerging and enjoying more leisure time and income. There was a consequent explosion in both tabletop and card games, both made more affordable by advances in technology. Before that time, game boards were printed on paper from engraved plates, then hand-coloured and mounted on linen, and folded into a slipcase with accompanying rules of play. While slimmer than contemporary board games, these games were still larger than the historically popular favourite, the playing card.
Cards printed from wood blocks existed in China in the 9th century. These easily portable amusements then spread west through trade routes and took on new patterns, suits, and uses throughout Persia, Egypt, and eventually Europe in the 13th century. Card games are myriad! They combine elements of skill, strategy, team play, and pure luck in ways that are endlessly surprising. Many games endure today, with their rules well documented in contemporary 18th and 19th century publications.
Play a hand, roll the dice, and enjoy the art of play.
Accessible during聽opening hours.
Curated by Jacquelyn Sundberg, Outreach Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections
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Venez vous amuser avec cette s茅lection de jeux tir茅s des collections de 成人VR视频.
Les jeux peuvent unir les joueurs ou les opposer. Ils peuvent stimuler un int茅r锚t partag茅, instruire et divertir. Les premiers jeux de table fournissaient souvent des occasions d鈥檃pprendre en s鈥檃musant. Qu鈥檌ls soient 茅ducatifs, moraux ou purement ludiques, les jeux poss猫dent une histoire riche de design, d鈥檃rt et de typographie.
Au XIXe si猫cle, les jeux de soci茅t茅 et les cartes 茅taient d鈥檈xcellentes vitrines pour les innovations en imprimerie et en fabrication manufacturi猫re. La nouvelle classe moyenne avait plus de temps de loisirs et d鈥檃rgent. Sans surprise, la popularit茅 des jeux et des cartes, que les progr猫s techniques rendaient plus abordables, a explos茅. Avant cette 茅poque, les plateaux de jeux 茅taient imprim茅s sur du papier 脿 partir de gravures, puis color茅s 脿 la main et mont茅s sur du lin, et pli茅s dans un 茅tui avec leur livret de r猫gles. Plus minces que nos jeux de soci茅t茅 contemporains, ils 茅taient tout de m锚me plus gros que le jeu chouchou de l鈥檋istoire, les cartes 脿 jouer.
Au IXe si猫cle, les cartes imprim茅es sur bois 茅taient d茅j脿 en usage en Chine. Tr猫s portatives, elles se sont r茅pandues vers l鈥檕uest le long des routes commerciales, conqu茅rant la Perse et l鈥櫭塯ypte avant d鈥檃boutir en Europe au XIIIe si猫cle, adoptant au passage de nouveaux r猫glements, styles et usages. Les jeux de cartes sont l茅gion! Ils combinent le talent, la strat茅gie, la collaboration et la chance de mani猫res inattendues. Bien des jeux encore populaires aujourd鈥檋ui se jouent selon des r猫gles couch茅es sur papier aux XVIIIe et XIXe 蝉颈猫肠濒别蝉.
Jouez une main, lancez les d茅s鈥� mais surtout, amusez-vous!
Accessible pendant les聽heures d'ouverture.
Commissaire d鈥檈xposition : Jacquelyn Sundberg, biblioth茅caire de liaison, Livres rares et collections sp茅cialis茅es
