Cincuenta y nueve familias
Subtitle: cincuenta y nueve años
By: [bound by] Steven C Daiber ; [with essay by] Dr. Abel Sierra Madero
Edition: Open edition.
Series: Cincuenta y mas familias. Cincuenta y mas años
Publisher: Red Trillium Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Florence, MA
Language: spa; eng
Translated from: spa; eng
Subjects: Artists' books; Specimens; Ration books; In art; Social conditions
Other titles: 59 familias
Description: Collection of 59 numbered ration books ("libretas") contributed by Cuban families, sewn together with raised cord binding. Bound in at back is a small booklet with screenprint cover in the same size and shape containing an essay by Cuban ethnographer Abel Sierra Madero on the libreta and its role in Cuban life. The booklet also includes a statement from the binder, Steven C Daiber, on collecting and binding libretas. Each libreta records a family's food supply for a year, including bread, rice, meat, and eggs.
Notes: Title and publication information from final libreta.

Series statement from artist's statement on publisher web page.

"English translation: Roberto García."

"Open edition: Two books were created in 2010 and in 2014, four in 2015, one in 2016, two in 2017, three in 2018"--Colophon.

In Spanish; final libreta in Spanish and English.