Livros e arte que falam por si: a formação da Biblioteca de Mario Zanini

This paper deals with Mario Zanini's art library, donated to the MAC USP in 1971,, and intends to deal with the formation of this artist's library between the 1930s. and 1970. The hypothesis proposes that the library was directly correlated with the art work produced, with a clipping of influences from its books. We realize from the books and the artist's performance that the library stands as an engine that leads him to think, and that shows us that his artistic production has different values from that previously produced by brazilian modernist artists of the 1920s. This library makes possible a path that expresses a new poetics in the scenario of an urbanization that was taking place in the landscape environment of the city. In the context of the Brazilian Library Congress 2019, with regard to issues such as democracy and diminishing inequality, libraries can be an informational locus of extroversion of these collections, in the promotion of the documentary artistic heritage, which we understand to be the primordial step for the implementation of action policies that can deal with art documents, the history of art and the history of São Paulo modernity itself, so that they can be known and available to any reader, any citizen