Codex espangliensis
Subtitle: from Columbus to the border patrol
By: by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya.
Contributors: Chagoya, Enrique.; Rice, Felicia.; Moving Parts Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Moving Parts Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [Santa Cruz, Calif.]
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Artists' books; America -- History -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: The work "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"--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Performance texts by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, collage images by Enrique Chagoya, bookwork designed and printed by Felicia Rice ... 50 signed and numbered books bound in Amatl paper over boards by Maureen Carey ... 1-45 cased in portfolios ... I-V boxed with unique inclusions"--Pastedown of portfolio.
Fifteen bifolia, printed on one side, pasted together, folded accordion style and attached to the upper and lower boards.
LC has copy no. 34, with 2 prospectuses (variant covers) laid in.