| Codex Espangliensis. From Columbus to the Border Patrol.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
Moving Parts Press.
Hard Cover.
ISBN 0872863670. Codex Espangliensis. is a collaborative artists' book made up of performance texts and poems by Guillermo Gómez-Peña interwoven with collage imagery by Enrique Chagoya into book form by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press. Contents
Codex Espangliensis. chronicles and confronts the realities and surrealities of border culture on the eve of the millennium. Collage images juxtapose examples of graphic art from pre-Hispanic times to present-day Mexico with traditions of Western art and contemporary American pop culture. The series of performance texts and poems are selected from the writer's works over his twenty-year career. Structure
Codex Espangliensis. is letterpress-printed in black and red from zinc photoengravings on Amatl paper lined with Shintengujo tissue. The book measures 9 x 11.5 inches and its accordion-fold structure reaches 31 feet at its full extension. The book is housed in an Amatl paper and Canapetta black book cloth Shiho chitsu-style portfolio box made by Maureen Carey. |
