Research Catalog

Title

Amoxtli o codice sobre la danza ritual de México / selección de textos históricos y grabados originales por Nacho Gómez Arriola.

Author

Gómez Arriola, Ignacio, 1955-

Publication

Guadalajara, México : Taller Gráfica de Comala, año de M M X X I [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Taller Gráfica de Comala, publisher.

Description

10 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 37 cm

Summary

Hand-printed typographical Letterpress artists' book created in a Linotype machine by architect, restorer, writer, painter and sculptor Ignacio "Nacho" Gómez Arriola (b. Guadalajara, México 1955), founding member of the artisan printing workshop Taller Gráfica de Comala. Ritual Dance is deeply rooted in the pre-Hispanic past and religious sentiment, is undoubtedly a rich and varied expression of the intangible cultural heritage of Mexicans. This Amoxtli or codex of unusual format -composed of sheets of paper joined and folded forming an extended strip in the style of the ancient Mesoamerican books in which the image and the text complement each other- wants to pay tribute to the centennial survival of the ancestral dance of Mexico. The texts are a very brief selection of pre-Hispanic poems, viceregal chronicles or stories that try to cover a universe of more than five centuries on the tradition of ritual dance. The images of this amoxtli correspond to engravings on some of the many traditional dance expressions carved by Nacho Gómez Arriola and printed from the original plates.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Dance > Mexico
• Artists' books > Mexico > 21st century > Specimens
• Artists' books
• Dance
• Zapopan (Mexico) > Religious life and customs
• Mexico
• Mexico > Zapopan

Genre/Form

• Artists' books.
• Ribbon (material)
• Specimens.
• Accordion fold format (Binding)
• Ties.
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Limitation statements (Publishing)

Note

• Cover title
• Letterpress printed
• "Los grabados, la composición y la impresión del libro tipográfico AMOXTLI O CODICE SOBRE LA DANZA RITUAL DE MEXICO fueron realizados a mano por Nacho Gómez Arriola para el Taller Gráfica de Comala en Guadalajara. Se estampó sobre papel de algodón Fabriano Unica y Fabriano Murillo con guardas de papel de mulberry Thailandés. Fue compuesto en fundición Ludlow y en Intertype con la colaboración del maestro tipógrafico Salvador 'Chava' Botello. Se terminó de imprimir en tiempos del Covid en el Otoño del año 2021. Se estamparon a mano 1000 ejemplares más VI para el autor firmados y numerados."--Colophon of the introduction
• Two individual parts bound together. Part 1: "La danza ancestral de México, texto introductorio por Nacho Gómez Arriola", 10 pages, illustrations, on Fabriano Unica paper, in an embossed Thai mulberry paper wrapper. Part 2: "Amoxtli o codice sobre la danza ritual de México, selección de textos históricos y grabados originales por Nacho Gómez Arriola", 12 unnumbered pages, illustrations, 35 x 12 cm, folded accordion-style; on Fabriano Murillo paper. Both parts signed by the book artist.

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Binding (note)

• Bound in cream-colored wrapper with text and illustration in black and red ink, with two bronze ribbon ties.

Call Number

JX 23-1402

OCLC

1336081523

Author

Gómez Arriola, Ignacio, 1955- book artist, author, printer.

Title

Amoxtli o codice sobre la danza ritual de México / selección de textos históricos y grabados originales por Nacho Gómez Arriola.

Publisher

Guadalajara, México : Taller Gráfica de Comala, año de M M X X I [2021]

Edition

Edition of 100 and VI for the author, signed and numbered.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

In Spanish.

Binding

Bound in cream-colored wrapper with text and illustration in black and red ink, with two bronze ribbon ties.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Taller Gráfica de Comala, publisher.

Research Call Number

JX 23-1402