Codex Espangliensis / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Felicia Rice, Enrique Chagoya

Codex Espangliensis / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Felicia Rice, Enrique Chagoya

Books


FA.B74.1005
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
2000
Felicia Rice
Enrique Chagoya
City Lights Books
Moving Parts Press
San Francisco
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo [, Chagoya, Enrique, Rice, Felicia, Artists' books
Case bound; illustrated accordion book. From back cover: "Codex Espangliensis is a unique collaboration between performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, visual artist Enrique Chagoya, and book artist Felicia Rice. Provocative and visually stunning, it chronicles the history of conquest, cultural transformation, and economic interdependence that has shaped the Americas 'from Columbus to the border patrol'. Inspired by pre-Hispanic codices, this artists' book opens from right to left, expanding out from accordion folds to a length of over twenty-one feet. Gomez-Pena's texts -- a heady mix of languages, accents, poetry, and prose -- are woven through and around Chagoya's collages layered with pre-Hispanic drawings, colonial-era representations of New World natives, and contemporary comic book superheroes. Rice's masterful typographic compositions orchestrate the many voices and views in a series of beautiful and jarring montages. Codex Espangliensis offers a history of the Americas which must be read forward and backward, in fragments and in recurring episodes -- in short, as history itself tends to unfold."