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El silencio de los sueños abandonados : cancionero y disco

Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Cartonera

Found cardboard recycled as book cover boards. Variable edition with unique hand embellishment. Text printed on pages of paper made from recycled materials that are gathered in signatures and then attached to cardboard with adhesive. Spine covered in bookcloth/muslin/crash. Title and authorâ€™s name on original cyanotype image that is framed by cutout cardboard. Hand bound by anonymous member of La Cartonera.

Author: Kristos
Artist: Hurpin, Dany
Date: 2008
Publisher: Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Cartonera
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Collections: The Arts Collection; Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database
Description of Original: Height: 13 cm.; Width: 18 cm.; Depth: 2 cm.
Subjects: Small presses — Mexico — Specimens; La Cartonera; Artists' books — Mexico — Specimens; Mexico — Literature and society — 21st century; Popular culture — Mexico — Cuernavaca; Mexico — Literature — Poetry — 21st century; Publishing — Mexico — Independent publishing houses; Editoriales cartoneras; Mexico
Original: Catalog Record
Location of Original: University of Wisconsin—Madison. Libraries. Department of Special Collections : CA 16667 no. 15 c. 3
For Staff: METS