The exhibition aimed to promote the art of the ex libris and to organize cultural exchange and communication between graphic artists from different countries. Its main objective was to cultivate and promote an interest in and devotion to bookplates and enhance their artistic qualities.
The exhibition in the USA opened on Jack London Square, San Francisco. It included four works by Marat Bryzgalov - four bookplates made in the technique of silkscreen printing.
The international ex libris exhibition in the USA was devoted to George Steiner, one of the most influential intellectuals of our time - a widely published author and lover of the word and of books.
Dr. George Steiner was born in Paris, France on April 23rd, 1929. He is a French-American literary critic, essayist, novelist, philosopher and educator. He wrote for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. He received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998.
George Steiner studied the relationship between literature and society, particularly in light of modern history. His field was primarily comparative literature, and his work as a critic tended toward exploring cultural and philosophical issues.
Steiner was Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Geneva, Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow in the University of Oxford, Professor of Poetry in Harvard University and an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
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