Taking form, making worlds: Cartonera publishers in Latin America

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...

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Hauptverfasser: Bell, Lucy 1986- (VerfasserIn), Flynn, Alex Ungprateeb (VerfasserIn), O'Hare, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Austin University of Texas Press 2022
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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Zusammenfassung: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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 303 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9781477324950
9781477324967

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