Didactic\u0103 de cele mai multe ori, av\u00e2ntat eseistic\u0103 \u00een anumite capitole, “Istoria…” lui Martin Lyons este o carte destinat\u0103 unor largi categorii de public. Deci nu doar bibliofilor, iubitorilor \u00eenver\u015funa\u0163i ai c\u0103r\u0163ii, ci \u015fi tuturor acelora care doresc s\u0103 afle, \u00eentr-o manier\u0103 bine documentat\u0103 \u015fi \u00eentr-un stil accesibil, care au fost avatarurile obiectului “carte”, pornind de la f\u00e2\u015fiile de bambus antice din China, trec\u00e2nd prin papirusurile egiptene, t\u0103bli\u0163ele de cear\u0103 grece\u015fti, revolu\u0163ionarele codexuri (care au \u00eenlocuit decisiv sulurile de pergament) \u015fi ajung\u00e2nd la ipostaza sa tip\u0103rit\u0103, post-Gutenberg, p\u00e2n\u0103 \u00een zilele noastre.<\/p>\n
Adic\u0103 p\u00e2n\u0103 \u00een veacul XXI, c\u00e2nd tradi\u0163ionalul obiect, devenit demult sinonim cu cultura (vezi expresia “om cu carte”) e pe cale s\u0103 fie \u00eenlocuit cu Kindle, Nook sau alte e-readers confortabile, care pot stoca o bibliotec\u0103 \u00eentreag\u0103 \u015fi care altoiesc pe textul scris toate avantajele calculatorului (de la m\u0103rirea corpului de liter\u0103 la sistemul de search). At\u00e2ta doar c\u0103 au nevoie de baterii \u015fi sunt sensibile la viru\u015fi, spre deosebire de buna \u015fi b\u0103tr\u00e2na carte imprimat\u0103 cu cerneal\u0103 pe h\u00e2rtie, \u015fi legat\u0103 cu a\u0163\u0103 tipografic\u0103, clame sau lipit\u0103 cu clei.<\/p>\n
O istorie exhaustiv\u0103, cu imagini rare (de la anluminuri la capodopere ale tiparului timpuriu, realizate de Gutenberg \u015fi Aldus Manutius – cel de la care ne-a r\u0103mas termenul de aldine), admirabil reproduse \u015fi paginate, care restituie \u00eentreaga putere \u015fi magie a c\u0103r\u0163ii: “Cartea a fost \u00eentotdeauna, spune Martin Lyons, mai mult dec\u00e2t un dispozitiv folositor. Printre altele, poate fi un instrument pedagogic, o surs\u0103 de inspira\u0163ie religioas\u0103 \u015fi o oper\u0103 de art\u0103. A stat la baza a numeroase religii \u015fi a fost o imens\u0103 surs\u0103 de putere politic\u0103. Cre\u015ftinismul, iudaismul \u015fi islamul – trei dintre marile religii ale lumii – s-au dezvoltat \u00een jurul unor c\u0103r\u0163i sacre.”<\/p>\n
E un alt fel de a spune c\u0103 istoria c\u0103r\u0163ii este mai mult dec\u00e2t consemnarea evolu\u0163iei unui obiect, \u015fi c\u0103 poate, de fapt, ilustra istoria culturii, a mentalit\u0103\u0163ilor dar \u015fi, la modul generic, a umanit\u0103\u0163ii din ultimii 2.500 de ani.
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\nMartin Lyons, Istoria c\u0103r\u0163ilor, Editura Art, Bucure\u015fti 2011<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nu, nu este vorba despre Sf\u00e2nta Scriptur\u0103, ci despre un volum care \u00eencearc\u0103 s\u0103 povesteasc\u0103, \u00een 224 de pagini \u015fi 220 de ilustra\u0163ii color, aventura uneia dintre cele mai folositoare \u015fi durabile tehnologii inventate vreodat\u0103: cartea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7194],"tags":[7193,26223,24540,26222,242,26221,26220],"class_list":["post-53214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carte","tag-carte","tag-editura-art","tag-gutenberg","tag-istoria-cartilor","tag-istorie","tag-martin-lyons","tag-tipar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69931,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214\/revisions\/69931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}