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Taking form, making worlds cartonera publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell 1986- Alex Flynn; Patrick O'Hare

Austin University of Texas Press 2022

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  • Título:
    Taking form, making worlds cartonera publishers in Latin America
  • Autor: Lucy Bell 1986-
  • Alex Flynn; Patrick O'Hare
  • Assuntos: Cartonera books -- Publishing -- Latin America; Cartonera books -- Publishing -- Social aspects -- Latin America; Cartonera books -- Latin America; LIVROS DE ARTISTAS -- AMÉRICA LATINA; ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA -- AMÉRICA LATINA; EDITORAS -- AMÉRICA LATINA; LIVROS -- AMÉRICA LATINA; PAPELÃO
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: Histories : tracing trajectories of resistance -- Methods : trans-formal research for transformational practice -- Texts : cartonera literature in action -- Encounters : existence as resistance and sites of plurality -- Workshops : cardboard and the material sociality of practice -- Exhibitions : an artistic proposition to reorder the social
    "Cartoneras are community-based publishing collectives that make low-cost books out of waste materials in contexts where paperbacks can cost over a month's minimum wage. The first of its kind, Eloísa Cartonera, was born in Buenos Aires in the aftermath of the 2001 economic crisis. As many families lost work, many turned to other ways of supporting their families by picking through trash for objects to recycle, including cardboard. The founding members of Eloísa began to buy cardboard from these cartoneras with the idea of using it to create hand-painted books (typically priced for the middle class and higher in Latin America) at an affordable price. Cartoneras have their own specific aesthetics, much like zines in the US and Europe, while also finding ways to experiment with, and potentially break down, some social markers between and social institutions and systems"--
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
  • Editor: Austin University of Texas Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2022
  • Formato: xvi, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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