From Cordel to Libros Cartoneros: Latin American Print Culture

10 cartas cubanas

Description:
Rivero Martínez, Héctor R. 10 cartas cubanas / diseño y caligrafía, Hector R. Rivero Mtnez. Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2023. N7433.4.R585 D54 2023 (Only one copy was produced) Description: Artist book consisting of shoe box-size carton with metal pull ring, decorated with collage of portraits, drawing, torn scraps of letters, blue tape with lettering; it encloses 10 numbered, artfully aged envelopes with Cuban stamps and a handwritten introductory card; the first names of letter writers and recipients encircle the lip of the lid in black block-letters: "Fina a Lezama, Lezama a Dulce, Dulce a Virgilio, Virgilio a Gastón, Gastón [cut off]"; interspersed between names are stamped red hands pointing and spelling 'devuelvase'; the enclosed letters are typed on coarse-grain tan paper with pasted-on handwritten signatures on torn scraps of white paper. Each specimen is handmade with small variations and thus unique.
Attribution:
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991086058709506532
Date:
12-21-2024
Exhibit Tags:
Artists' books -- Cuba -- Matanzas