International Exhibition of Ex Libris and Graphics for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Akhmet Zhubanov

Location: Aktobe city, Republic of Kazakhstan.

Year: 2006.

International exhibition of Ex Libris and graphics was dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the birth of the composer Akhmet Zhubanov. 89 artists from 23 countries took part in the exhibition.

Catalog of the international exhibition of Ex Libris and graphics dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the birth of the composer Akhmet Zhubanov. Aktobe, 2006

Akhmet Kuanovich Zhubanov is a Soviet and Kazakh musicologist, composer, conductor.

Ex Libris (from the Latin ex libris ‘from the book’) is a book sign which shows the book owner. It is glued or printed from the matrix to the inside of book covers. In the history of bibliophiles such cases are know when the Ex Liblis glued into a book became more expensive than the book itself. The Ex Libirs appeared soon after the printing invention. It is considered to originate from Germany.

Ex Librises are collected. The main Ex ibris techniques are xylography, zincography, lithography, linocut, etching etc. The computer aided design is being used more and more often for Ex Librises.