Much has been written about the topics covered in this exhibition ranging from Kircher to Walt Whitman to artists’ books. The following is a very brief list of works (there are many more) that may be of interest to those who want to know more about each topic.
Athanasius Kircher and early decipherers
Daly, Okasha El. Egyptology: the missing millennium. Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings. London: University College, 2005.
Godwin, Joscelyn. Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World: the Life and work of the Last Man to Search for Universal Knowledge. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2009.
Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet.London, UK: British Museum, 1990.
Rowland, Ingrid D. The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome. Chicago,IL: University of Chicago Library, 2000.
Stolzenberg, Daniel. Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity. Chicago, IL:University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Rosetta Stone
British Museum.Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt edited by Ilona Regulski.London, ENG.:British Museum Press, 2022.
Buchwald, JedZ. and Diane G. Josefowicz. The Riddle of the Rosetta. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Dolnick, Edward. The Writing of the Gods: the race to decode the Rosetta Stone. New York: Scribner, 2021.
Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: the Rosetta Stone and Decipherment.Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press with the British Museum Press, 1999.
Walt Whitman
Tane, Susan Jaffe and Dr. Karen Karbiener. Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman. New York: Grolier Club, 2019.
Tapscott, Stephen J. Leaves of Myself: Whitman's Egypt in "Song of Myself". Durham, NC: Duke University Press, American Literature, Vol. 50, No. 1 , Mar., 1978, pp. 49-73
Whitman, Walt. New York Dissected: a Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of Leaves of Grass. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., 1936.
Drucker, Johanna. The Century of Artists’ Books. New York: Granary Books, 1995.
Drucker, Johanna and Brad Freeman. The JAB Anthology: selections from the Journal of Artists’ Books, 1994-2020.Iowa City, IW: University of Iowa Press, 2023.
