La imposible clausura del concepto 'graphikós' y su ejemplificación en el libro de artista y la partitura gráfica

Abstract

Investigating the graphic word, as an introduction, some questions about methodology and science are raised. Especially the inexistence of an objective scientific rationality is demonstrated, to bet on hybrid methodologies or that resort to subjectivity, cultural production or research based on the arts. Next, the concept of graph is investigated, tracing its graphikós etymology and semantic field. In this way, an attempt is made to limit its ambiguous and broad meaning. In turn, the inseparable relationship between what is graphic and the engraver is explored, and the concept of trace related to graphics is analyzed. Noting the difficulty of fully understanding graphikós, we seek to define it through two examples (the artist's book and the graphic score). Concluding that these also carry an open and contradictory definition, a metaphor for our contemporary time and its digital reality where the graphic is currently registered.