A BOOK speaks of paper. Yes, paper that has been the proof of human civilization for years. And Legenda Kertas, Menelusuri Jalan Sebuah Peradaban (Legend of Paper, Retracing the Route of a Civilization) captured it from a variety of viewpoints: historian, anthropologist, philologist, philosophers, art critiques, and literary critiques.

Aminudin T.H. Siregar, for instance, wrote: "In the West, before the printing era, printmaking did