Florecillas tardías: el principio estaba en el futuro (y era mayor): Una deriva con preguntas, problemas sospechas bibliotecarias mirando al archivo y escuchando desde el arte
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Una reflexión sobre las bibliotecas pensadas desde la idea de archivo y miradas a través de las herramientas que proporciona el arte.
Todo empezó hace 100 años. Bueno, no es verdad, empezó antes. En 1752 se funda la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando y en algún momento del propio siglo XVIII se comienzan a enseñar allí lo que se llamaban “las nobles artes”. Para ello, seguro que se utilizaron libros, dibujos, objetos que habitaban ese edificio de forma fantasmática. Aparecían en los talleres para luego desvanecerse en armarios, almacenes, despachos. En 1844 se separan formalmente la Academia y la Escuela, pero continúan habitando en el mismo edificio. Quienes están relacionados con la Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando quieren a toda costa poder contar con una biblioteca que sirva para aprender, pero los documentos que usan, que se preocupan por juntar, siguen sin encontrar acomodo. Hasta que el 3 de marzo de 1923, era sábado y por la mañana, se inaugura la biblioteca. En plan okupa, atrincherada en el espacio que le cede la Academia, sigue allí, sin mucho dinero para crecer, sin mucha atención bibliotecaria, hasta que en 1968 se traslada a su sede actual en la ciudad universitaria. Entre tanto, en uno de los rutinarios bombardeos que las tropas fascistas realizan sobre Madrid, en algún momento de 1938, varios misiles caen, sin explotar, sobre la Academia y destrozan el techo de la Biblioteca. Tenemos fotos de ese desastre. En una de ellas, se ve un grabado, con el cristal y el marco rotos, que representa el parnaso de las artes. Ese mismo grabado, en tres piezas, sigue colgado en la actual sede de la Biblioteca.
A reflection on libraries conceived from the idea of the archive and viewed through the tools provided by art. It all started 100 years ago. Well, that's not true, it started before that. In 1752 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando was founded and at some point in the 18th century, what were called "the noble arts" began to be taught there. Books, drawings and objects that inhabited the building in a phantasmagorical way were certainly used for this purpose. They appeared in the workshops and then vanished into cupboards, storerooms and offices. In 1844 the Academy and the School were formally separated, but they continued to live in the same building. Those connected with the San Fernando School of Fine Arts wanted at all costs to be able to have a library that could be used for learning, but the documents they used, which they took the trouble to collect, still could not find a place to live. Until 3 March 1923, on a Saturday morning, the library was inaugurated. Squatting in the space provided by the Academy, it remained there, without much money to grow, without much library attention, until 1968, when it moved to its current location in the university city. Meanwhile, in one of the routine bombing raids that the fascist troops carried out on Madrid, at some point in 1938, several missiles fell, without exploding, on the Academy and destroyed the roof of the Library. We have photos of this disaster.One of them shows an engraving, with the glass and frame broken, depicting the parnassus of the arts.The same engraving, in three pieces, still hangs in the Library's current location.
A reflection on libraries conceived from the idea of the archive and viewed through the tools provided by art. It all started 100 years ago. Well, that's not true, it started before that. In 1752 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando was founded and at some point in the 18th century, what were called "the noble arts" began to be taught there. Books, drawings and objects that inhabited the building in a phantasmagorical way were certainly used for this purpose. They appeared in the workshops and then vanished into cupboards, storerooms and offices. In 1844 the Academy and the School were formally separated, but they continued to live in the same building. Those connected with the San Fernando School of Fine Arts wanted at all costs to be able to have a library that could be used for learning, but the documents they used, which they took the trouble to collect, still could not find a place to live. Until 3 March 1923, on a Saturday morning, the library was inaugurated. Squatting in the space provided by the Academy, it remained there, without much money to grow, without much library attention, until 1968, when it moved to its current location in the university city. Meanwhile, in one of the routine bombing raids that the fascist troops carried out on Madrid, at some point in 1938, several missiles fell, without exploding, on the Academy and destroyed the roof of the Library. We have photos of this disaster.One of them shows an engraving, with the glass and frame broken, depicting the parnassus of the arts.The same engraving, in three pieces, still hangs in the Library's current location.