A wonderfully powerful
publication that self-consciously embraces the format, and visual style of the
pre-Hispanic codices, Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border
Patrol (2002), is a collaboration between Guillermo Gómez-Peña (performance
artist), Enrique Chagoya (artist), and Felicia Rice
(typographer/printer).
This accordion is a riotous mixture of texts
collaged together with imagery from pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary comic
book sources that playfully subvert the traditional historical narratives of
the relationship between the USA and Mexico. This "post-Columbian
codex" adopts the traditional format of being read from the back to the
front, while the individual two-page spreads read from left to
right. Originally published in 1998 in an edition of 50 by Rice's press,
Moving Parts Press, and then published in trade edition in 2000 and this
version reprinted in 2002. Incredibly this fantastic publication is still available
for about $15!
30 individual one-sided pages at 7" (h) x 9" (w), and when fully
opening its 22ft 6inches long.
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