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People, poetry, plastic and milk

On By ClaraIn Latin American, New Acquisitions, Spanish, Special collections1 Comment

In this post we will introduce the last addition to our series of posts on Latin American handmade books. We have been developing Cambridge’s cartonera collection since 2013. Ten years, various blog posts and events, a research project collaboration, a book chapter contribution and 271 books later the collection offers a broad panorama of the …

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Artists’ books from Cuba

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The Latin American and Iberian Collections team has recently acquired a small but utterly compelling collection of books published by Ediciones Vigía. These are beautiful and hugely imaginative hand-made artist books created in Matanzas, Cuba. Although in nature very different to the Cartonera collection we have built over the years, Vigía books also help us …

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