Indication: Ana Utsch – UFMG School of Fine Arts
Period: March 31 to April 7, 2019
Marina Garone Gravier holds a PhD in Art History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (UNAM), where she directs the Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología. She serves as a research correspondent for the Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She co-coordinates Red Latinoamericana de Cultura Gráfica and is a delegate of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). His lines of research are: history of the book and graphic culture in Mexico and Latin America and the relationship between graphic arts and gender.
Considered a reference in typography studies of works produced in indigenous languages, Gravier is responsible for publishing the first typography treatise in the Americas, entitled El Arte de Ymprenta by Don Alejandro Valdés, and the award-winning work Historia de la typografia colonial para Lenguas Indigenas. by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in 2009, and published by the Universidad Veracruzana in 2014. Little known to the broad public, studies on colonial prints in indigenous languages mobilize different disciplines and domains of knowledge, encompassing scholars in the areas of Letters, History, Arts Graphics, Heritage, History of Art and Education.