Publication: La mirada del tipógrafo: el libro entendido como una máquina de lectura
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2001
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Calambur
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A lo largo de la historia, el libro ha sido mucho más que el archivo de la memoria de la
humanidad, ha sido siempre un objeto para ser leído por sus coetáneos. Las disposiciones gráficas
y tipográficas remiten a mecanismos de lectura. El libro puede ser entendido, asi, como
una máquina de lectura. Para comprenderla, se hace imprescindible recuperar la mirada con
la que los tipógrafos (y aún antes los copistas) han elaborado los libros, estudiándolos en todos
sus aspectos (tipo)gráficos (tanto de mise en page, cuanto de mise en texte), más allá de
aquellos acercamientos parciales que han demostrado su utilidad como herramientas para
otras disciplinas. En este articulo se esboza el análisis de la mecánica del libro en sus fundamentos
primeros: un espacio para albergar la escritura; su relación con el ojo y la mano; sus
ejes básicos; la relación entre el espacio y el tiempo en el libro; los fundamentos de las estructuras
de compaginación...
Throughout history, books have been much more than the archive of human memory; they have also always been objects to be read by contemporaries. Both graphic and typographic layouts refer to mechanisms of reading. The book can be looked at as a reading machine, and in order to understand it, it is essential to reconstruct the way in which it was seen hy typographers (and before them copyists) as they produced books, studying all their (typo)graphic aspects (from mise en page to mise en texte), beyond the partial approaches that have proved useful in other disciplines. This article analyzes the foundations of the mechanics of the book: a space in which to store writing; its relationship with the eye and hand; its basic characteristics; the relation between space and time inside the book; and the estructural foundations of its layout...
Throughout history, books have been much more than the archive of human memory; they have also always been objects to be read by contemporaries. Both graphic and typographic layouts refer to mechanisms of reading. The book can be looked at as a reading machine, and in order to understand it, it is essential to reconstruct the way in which it was seen hy typographers (and before them copyists) as they produced books, studying all their (typo)graphic aspects (from mise en page to mise en texte), beyond the partial approaches that have proved useful in other disciplines. This article analyzes the foundations of the mechanics of the book: a space in which to store writing; its relationship with the eye and hand; its basic characteristics; the relation between space and time inside the book; and the estructural foundations of its layout...
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Litterae : Cuadernos de cultura escrita. ISSN: 1578-5130. Año I 2001 n. 1 pp. 145--178