The Bibliographic Expression of Eminescu's Iconography (Photography and Fine Arts, 1939–1989)

The paper intends to present synthetically the way in which the chapter of Bibliografia Mihai Eminescu (The Bibliography of Mihai Eminescu) entitled Iconografia eminesciană. Mihai Eminescu oglindit în artele plastice(Eminescu’s Iconography. Mihai Eminescu in the Mirror of Fine Arts) is structured and elaborated, the recorded illustrations and references having for a source Romanian and foreign periodicals from the interval 1939–1989. This is the second part of the Bibliography and the 17^th and last volume from the series Works (known also as the national edition, the academic edition, and most often by the name of the person who with sublime toil used to decipher Eminescu manuscripts and who edited the first six volumes – “the Perpessicius edition”). Wishing to mirror the mentioned chapter, the article surveys all its sections and subsections –, from photographic documents to exhibitions on Eminescu, going through the representations of the poet and his work (as a source of inspiration, evidently) in painting, graphic and decorative art, and sculpture –, offering only those elements which can throw at least a slight ray of light on the bibliographer’s complex work. This work ranges from investigating a periodical to the identification of an artist or an artistic technique, from the simple application of some consecrated norms to one’s own “view” of how the information must be communicated to those ready to receive it.

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