Other details
- Description:
1 volume (unpaged), 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
- Published:
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas : Taller Leñateros, 2003, c2002.
- Language:
English
Mayan languages
- Notes:
"Limited edition. Copy [...] of an edition of 500" -- verso of t.-p.
"Printing begun August 10, 2003" -- verso of t.-p.
Mayan idioms concerning the heart.
Colophon: "This book first went to press on February 14, 2002 in Taller Leñateros, the "Woodlanders' Workshop". It was stamped and mackled in Sun and Moon Silkscreen and bound with our hearts in hand-and paper conjured up by Mayans from maguey fiber and mistletoe. ... Heart glyph: Karen Bassie, Temple of the Inscriptions, west panel D3, Palenque. Drawing of Mayan scribe on the title page: Rafael López Castro, after the Codex Tro-cortesiano. Design: Ámbar [Past] with Bob & Mimi ... Serenades and love letters: Munda Tostón and Kiromansia Yat Ka'. Printing: Cristóbal Vázquez Moshán, Lucio Jiménez, and Cruz Pantoja. Handmade paper: Xmanvel Váskes, María Tzu, Karmelita te la Kruz, Xunka Ernández. Binding: Antonia Moshán Culej, Pilar Tovilla de los Santos, Xpetra Ernándes, Catalina Sánchez, Loxa Spek'mut. Heartbreaks: Lucio Jiménez, Calixtema Robles, Tesh Tontik."
"To tell this love story I have chosen twenty heart metaphors with the colonial Tzotzil text written using today's alphabet ... First is found the literal translation of the Tzotzil. On the following page, accompanying Naúl Ojeda's graphic definition, occurs first my English translation of the friar's Spanish dictionary entry, followed by the original Tzotzil, and below this, my literal rendering of the Tzotzil phrase" -- p. [15]-[16].
Text and woodcuts printed in red and black on off-white art paper. The illustrations, many full page, include printed crepe paper an moveable cutouts. Bound in textured black handmade paper over boards; a heart-shaped cutout in the front cover reveals red endpapers. A shiny black ribbon tied around the front hinge has a red velvet heart pendant.
Text illustrated with woodcut printed in red and black by Uruguayan artist Naúl Ojeda.
In English, with some Tzotzil.
- OCLC Number:
55693418
