Ex-líbris: memória gráfica e potência simbólica de memória

Abstract

From the history of the book, intrinsic to the history of printing, so many graphic artifacts emerge that can help us to unravel the trajectory of a work. Among the various marks that, over time, accumulate in books and establish the relationship between a subject and an object, are the marks of bibliographic properties, such as ex-libris, effective social mediators. Sometimes forgotten among books, they have a great potential to fix memories and, above all, their transformation into a document goes through the "stratification" of their various "layers of information". This artifact has a graphic and visual language that carries with it traces of the culture and society in which a subject was inserted in the past, so there is a memory support that influences the construction of the imagination of those who observe it and can, then, trigger memories.