Artists' Books Collection

Retazos (de las hormigas) : para los malos tiempos

Description:

Poems. Text printed primarily on coarse brown paper; grained sand-colored paper and white and blue bond paper are also used. Brown tissue-paper endpapers. Heavy brown paper wrappers are decorated with affixed collages; front endpaper and one interior page also have cutouts affixed to them. Title and author name, and illustrations, are printed on an artistically cut sheet of white bond paper attached only at its left edge to the front wrapper; the word Retazos in the title is on a strip of heavy blue paper glued to the top of this. Navy blue and gray strings are looped vertically around some of the pages and tied; blue string is also woven into a cutout affixed to back wrapper, with a free end attached to an unaffixed tag bearing the copy no. Some hand coloring. Limited ed. of 200 copies. Part of a series of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía.

Artists:

  • Ríos, Marialva
  • Vega Serova, Anna Lidia, 1968-

Publication Date: 2004

Original Size: 44 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Collection: MSU Libraries Cuban Artists' Book Collection

Call Number: oversize N7433.35.C8 C8 box 29

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b5623818~S39a