In a New York Times review by William Grimes, entitled “A History of Awesome in One Room”, the JP Morgan Library’s new exhibit from Oxford’s Bodleian Library is described as featuring “some of the loftiest texts ever recorded”; the poetry of Sappho, the Magna Carta, the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, Euclid’s Elements, Newton’s Principia Mathematica, Shelley’s Frankenstein and an illustrated score by Felix Mendelssohn.
“Marks of Genius” works hard at its theme. Stephen Hebron, the Bodleian’s curator of the exhibition, carefully traces the changing meanings of genius since antiquity in a concise but wide-ranging catalog essay. The exhibit runs through mid-September at The Morgan Library.
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