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- Title
PRANCŪZIŠKASIS KNYGOS ĮRIŠAS: SĄVOKOS KILMĖ IR APRAIŠKOS LIETUVOJE.
- Authors
Taukinaitytė-Narbutienė, Rūta
- Abstract
The article aims at defining the French type of bookbinding, focusing on its particularities and distinguishing features. It also seeks to investigate the genesis and historiography of this concept, identify the cases of applying this particular type of binding in Lithuania and provide information about its prevalence in Lithuania. This type of binding is regarded as an exceptionally complicated and masterly piece of handwork encountered all over the world. Furthermore, it is often looked upon as a standard of book-binding craft and is related only to professional book-binding and the editions having bibliophilic value. That notwithstanding, the French binding has so far not been researched in Lithuania. The first known written sources, traced back to the 19th century, provide merely vague and indistinct information about it. In the later sources, dating to Lithuania's interwar period, more comprehensive description about this type of bookbinding could be found, provided by two bookbinders of the period concerned. In contemporary sources, however, no information is provided at all. Given the context, the article aims to compare and draw parallels between different bookbinding trends identified all over the world and those in Lithuania. It also analyses the impact of foreign bookbinding schools (mostly Estonian) on modern Lithuanian book-binding. Based on the research of technology applied and the objectives set, as well as on the approach to tradition and content of the book, several trends of contemporary handmade bookbinding have been identified in the article. The article is expected to promote the dissemination of French bookbinding in Lithuania, draw a clearer dividing line between the inside structure of binding and its external finish. Furthermore, the article is believed to draw researchers' and book authors' attention to the design and structure of this particular bookbinding, to the correlation between art and craft as well as to the significance of French bookbinding to the Lithuanian book culture.
- Publication
Knygotyra, 2015, Issue 65, p269
- ISSN
0204-2061
- Publication type
Article