PRIMERA BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE POESIA VISUAL Y EXPERIMENTAL EN MEXICO 1985–1986 [catalog with folded poster]

Núcleo Post-Arte, César Espinosa, org.

Puebla: Núcleo Post-Arte, 1986. Saddle-stapled 8vo in self-wrappers. Printed in black throughout on thin white paper stock. 26 pp. Includes a 39.7 × 56.5 cm (15.6 × 22.2 in.) poster machine-folded three times, printed in black, red, and yellow at recto, and black at verso. Text in Spanish.

Exhibition catalog and poster issued on the occasion of the ‘First International Biennial of Visual and Experimental Poetry in Mexico.’ A traveling exhibition with events in various locations, including this showing, held April 18–May 6, 1986, at Pinacoteca de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Includes essays and visual and concrete poetry by J. H. Kocman, Christo, and Guillermo Deisler, among others. Poster recto promotes an earlier showing held January 23–February 13, 1986, at Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City. Verso with a project summary and a list of approximately five hundred participants from over thirty countries.

Artifact Vibration Score: 8.3.

Catalog with a vertical fold at center affecting all pages, and trace amounts of rubbing and age toning along spine. Else very good. Machine-folded poster with faint handling creases and partial ink loss along fold lines. Very good. Item 1271.

Price: $450.00