Fin y principio (1999); [front cover] / Fin y principio

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Item ID: 39015091747082
Image ID: 23112_0001
Image Title: Fin y principio (1999); [front cover]
Work Title: Fin y principio
Comments: Italic typescript, drawings, and decorative borders mimeographed on brown, paper with black tissue papers interspersed, stapled at left margin and glued to art-paper wrappers. Wrappers are covered with black paper and illustrated with decorated paper cutouts including burlap, two pieces of pink cheesecloth, a piece of coiled wire, a piece of melted plastic, three pieces of broken blastic, three pieces of sponge, a piece of twine and three pieces of wood. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. "Esta edición en cuatro idiomas del poema ... consta de doscientos ejemplares iluminados a many y totalmente manufacturados por las Ediciones Vigía ... Fueron usadas para esta edición papel de estraza, ecológico y seda negro, así como diversos materialies de desecho y una reproducción de los cuadros Adán y Eva, del immoratal pintor y grabador alemán Alberto Durero."--Colophon. Winner of the Premio Nobel de Literatura, 1996.
Creator: Szymborska, Wisława; Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-; Ediciones Vigía
Date: 1999
Digital Collection: https://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/main
Exhibited In: Intersections: Cultures, Identities, Narratives
Item Dimensions: 30 cm.
Repository: University of Michigan Libraries (Special Collections Library)
Source Collection: RAREO
Subject: Artists' books; Cuba; Matanzas
Type: Book

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Image Digitization Date: 2014-12-08 08:41:32 -0500
Image Source Dimension: 3564 x 4990
Image Source: File Size: 50 MB
Image Source: File Type: TIFF
Image Source: Resolution: 600dpi
Purpose: Exhibit

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Record: 39015091747082
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