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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : chiefly color illustrations. |
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William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Histories : tracing trajectories of resistance -- Methods : trans-formal research for transformational practice -- Texts : cartonera literature in action -- Encounters : existence as resistance and sites of plurality -- Workshops : cardboard and the material sociality of practice -- Exhibitions : an artistic proposition to reorder the social. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cartonera books -- Publishing -- Latin America.
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Cartonera books -- Publishing -- Social aspects -- Latin America.
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Cartonera books -- Latin America.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
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Cartonera books |
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Latin America |
| Added Author |
Flynn, Alex (Anthropologist), author.
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O'Hare, Patrick, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bell, Lucy, 1986- Taking form, making worlds First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022 9781477324950 (DLC) 2021021110 |
| ISBN |
9781477324981 electronic book |
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1477324984 electronic book |
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9781477324974 electronic book |
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1477324976 electronic book |
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9781477324950 hardcover |
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9781477324967 paperback |
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