Discos Visuales
Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1968. Four circular rotating disks in clothbound slipcase. Covers with a bit of inevitable bowing due to the structure of the case. Some foxing to inside of slipcase, not affecting disks. Original fasteners have been replaced on two of the disks and cloth repaired at spine. Overall very good. Item #10528
A rare surrealist artists’ book by two central figures of mid-century Mexican poetry and visual art, encouraging non-linear reading in the tradition of concrete poetry.
Featuring the poetry of Octavio Paz, and designed by Vincente Rojo, the book contains four wheels, which reader-participants may spin to reveal new lines of text. Rojo (1932-2021) was a key member of the Mexican arts movement known as the Rupture Generation, and one of the most influential Mexican printers of the period. As the founder of Imprenta Madero, the seminal Mexican screen-printing studio, Rojo would steward an entire generation of Mexican graphic design.
“Juego y ceremonia o ceremonia que a la vez es un juego” / “Game and ceremony or ceremony that is at once a game”
Sold