La jícara, [6] / [gráfica, Carlos Jurado ; dirección, Ambar Past]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jurado, Carlos

Past, Ámbar

Hernández Téllez, Luz Estela

Godínez, Miguel Ángel, 1953-

Casa de las Imágenes (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico)

Taller Leñateros (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico)

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Past, Ámbar artist.

Past, Ámbar.

Indians of Mexico--Literary collections.

Indians of Mexico.

Mayas--Literary collections.

Mayas.

Mexican literature--Mexico--Chiapas.

Mexican literature.

Mestizos--Literary collections.

Mestizos.

Artists' books--Mexico--Chiapas.

Artists' books.

Mexico--Chiapas.

Genre:

Literary collections

Cartonera books.

Artists' books.

Artists' books -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- 1997.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (60 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm + 1 wrapper

Edition:

Segunda edición.

Place of Publication:

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas : Casa de las Imágenes : Taller Leñateros, 2009.

Summary:

"The contents of this issue are poetry and prose from Chiapan writers along with a serigraphed reprints of historic works on the region. One contribution reproduces holograph diary pages and another reproduces graffiti slogans from the walls of San Cristóbal. The book is illustrated throughout with serigraphs, many full page. As with many issues, there is a poem serigraphed inside a decorative border that runs along the bottom margin of one side of the accordion. The bellyband is tradititional Mayan huun paper. The covers are a stiff moulded paper with a three-dimensional pre-Columbian design. According to the colophon, "El papel del portada es de chi con resina de caucho pintado con achiote, brea y sangre de saraguato" (The paper for the covers is made from chi [possibly chia sage?] with Panama rubber resin painted with annato, pitch, and monkey blood). It is entirely possible that these words have colloquial meanings in Chiapas that elude your humble translator."

Notes:

Title from cover and wrapper.

La jícara (the gourd) was a journal designed and printed by the members of Taller Leñateros, a Mayan book-arts collective in Chiapas founded by the American-born Mexican poet Ambar Past.

La jícara: joined sheets of brown kraft paper accordion-folded and paged front to back and then back to front on verso. Issued in a handmade paper printed wrapper with handmade seal.

OCLC:

1370906312