Title
Incantations
Description
The three-dimensional cover, [a kind of mask] cast from recycled cardboard, corn silk, and coffee, represents the Mayan earth goddess Kaxail. Her eyes open onto handmade endpaper[s] blackened by soot and studded with palm fronds ... the product of a 20-year effort to compile a kind of modern Mayan codex ... contains dozens of silk-screen illustrations based on ancient Mayan folk-art patterns but painted by contemporary women -- Publisher's website
Date
2005
Publisher
Chiapas, Mexico : Taller Lenateros
Subject
Artists' books--Mexico
Tzotzil poetry--Translations into English
Tzotzil women
Women shamans--Mexico--Chiapas
Rights
Language
English
Physical Description
294 p. : ill. 25 x 26 cm in a case 28 x 27 cm
Barcode
39362050812444
Location
Art Spec Coll
Call Number
N7433.35.M49 C65 2005
How to Cite
“Incantations,” Artists' Books, accessed April 19, 2024, https://artistsbooks.oberlincollegelibrary.org/items/show/6783.