Slipcased
2012 · Mexico
by Plata, Itzel Vargas (General Coordinator)
Mexico: Museu del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2012. Slipcased. All Fine.. Bw illustrated card wraps with gold lettering. Deep French flaps, illustrated. 275 pp. with illus. throughout in color and bw. Also a booklet of white, stapled paper wraps with bw drawings and color photos; 71 pp. with 5 folding plates and one gatefold. Both housed in a board slipcase matching the main, bw volume. Texts in Spanish (Mexican) and English. A documentation of the entire exhibition history of the MPBA, from its opening in 1934 to 2012; 78 shows in all. Includes a section on the history of the museum itself, a complete chronological list of the exhibtions. Full of essays, images in color and bw, and all sorts of fascinating artistic information on/by art, artists, museum directors, etc. The white booklet is essays by the current generation of artists on their interpretations of the murals in the Palacio. Authors include Jorge Satorre, Edgardo Aragon, Omar Barquet, Marcela Armas with Santiago Itzcoatl, Julieta Aranda, and Pablo Lopez Luz.
(Inventory #: 153394)