THE MUSEALITY OF POETIC PRINT PORTFOLIOS IN THE COLLECTION OF PRINTS AT THE NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN ZAGREB

Poetic print portfolios as a special form of collaboration between poets and artists that work with prints appeared in the early 20th century. The covers hold prints and words, leaving a perma-nent common trace concerning the time in which it was created and about the people that took part in shaping it. Sometimes prints inspire poets, and sometimes the artist uses his imagination to turn verses into lines and blobs of colour. Poetic print portfolios appear in the form of a book, but with a pronounced artistic segment, especially with respect to the visual arts. For this reason they are included in the holdings of the Collection of prints at the National and University Library in Zagreb. The text is about the ways of documenting poetic print portfolios and about communicating with users, namely about detecting the proÞ le of users of this type of material. Special attention is given to the museality of poetic print portfolios, namely the context of their creation and continuing life within the Collection. Finally the autor try to draw the conclusion about the extent to which such portfolios as museum objects can be agents of a reality within the reality of the collection they are part of