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Ex-libris is artly made label with name, initials of the owner
pasted on the book (Latin "ex libris" means "from the books").
Such checkmarks were made still on precious manuscripts by medieval owners
in Europe. And when the books became available to everyone, a printed
sticker or title block became more useful. The main is to duplicate picture,
and for this purpose there is a set of ways. Traditional ways are cooper-plate
engraving, linocut, etching, etc. But today most convenient for duplicating
engineering is computer. In whole world the hand-made, orthodox ex-librises
step-by-step are passing away, and now on the international exhibitions
and festivals the computer ex-librises are exhibited seriously. The Kherson
artist Stas Volyazlovsky says, that it is necessary to submit with computers,
they are already everywhere and you can't destroy all computers, and it
is the excellent duplicating engineering. The truth, on all international
festivals the strong requirement is put forward to ex-librises: they should
be not on a diskette or CD, or sent by Internet. Ex-libris must be only
on paper, i.e. the process and master schedule should be done up to the
end.
Whether the computer art kills an ex-libris? On the one hand, the computer
can make this art more popular (all people have some book), and if you
can't order the professional artist's ex-libris, you can find some examples
in Internet - and make it by yourself. On the other hand, we have a paradox:
than the more computers, video, media than less books. Whether it is time
to think, where the ex-libris to glue - on the screen monitor or on the
hard disk?...
P.S. The computer ex-librises of the Kherson artists in the summer
of 2002 will be shown in Czechia, in March 2003 in Leipzig on the exhibition
"The Ukrainian ex-libris: second half of XX century".
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