Taking form, making worlds : cartonera publishers in Latin America /

Taking form, making worlds : cartonera publishers in Latin America /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bell, Lucy, 1986- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xvi, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Subject:	Cartonera books -- Publishing -- Latin America. Cartonera books -- Publishing -- Social aspects -- Latin America. Cartonera books -- Latin America. Cartonera books. Latin America.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12769744

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Other authors / contributors:	Flynn, Alex (Anthropologist), author. O'Hare, Patrick, author.
ISBN:	9781477324950 147732495X 9781477324967 1477324968 9781477324974 9781477324981
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Bell, Lucy, 1986- Taking form, making worlds. First edition Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022 9781477324974

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