Artists' Books Collection

Memorial de las ciudades : antología de textos sobre Ciudad Mexico y La Habana

Description:

Poems and prose by 20th-century authors. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript with manuscript titles on individual leaves of mostly coarse brown paper, illustrated with mounted photocopies of photographs and mounted, decorated green and white paper cutouts. Stapled at left margin and tied with yarn to brown paper wrappers. Wrappers have decorated-paper collages with yarn on front. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Place and date of publication from colophon. Las fotos originales de Olivia Manning fueron impresas para esta edición por Editorial Praxis --Second colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares, numerados... --Colophon. Ficha de autores, p. 111-113. Page [115] misnumbered 111. MSU has copy no. 165, unsigned. LC Copy 1 is no. 186. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).

Artists:

  • Diego José, 1973-
  • Manning, Olivia, 1968-
  • Venegas, Camilo, 1967-

Publication Date: 1995

Original Size: 113, [7] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Collection: MSU Libraries Cuban Artists' Book Collection

Call Number: oversize N7433.35.C8 C8 Box 7, Tray 7D

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b3669565~S39a