COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Portable Mayan Altar: Pocket Books of Mayan Spells
Description:
Hut-shaped cardboard case opens to form an altar with two side panels. Contains three books (11 cm.), a pot-shaped incense burner, two animal figure candle holders, and a plastic sleeve with 12 candles. Each book is bound in black handmade paper with gilt title to front board and gilt volume number to spine. Each has marbled end pages, full gilt edges, and a black ribbon book mark. Printed in an edition of 100. Title taken from Mayan house case. Colophons of books within case: "Texts from Incantations by Mayan women. Taller Leñateros, Mexico, 2005." Original Incantations title: Conjuros y ebriedades. Bookseller description: "Taller Lenateros, or The Woodlanders' Workshop, is a community of Mayan artists who produce handmade paper, artists' books, silkscreen and wood block prints, pansey graphs, natural dyes, and magic spells. The society was founded in 1975 by poet Ambar Past, and continues to flourish while offering training and employment to men and women who have no education and no career. Inspiration for many of the projects comes from dreams, nature, and Mayan history and tradition. ...The books contain spells, directions for casting, and illustrations."
Subject:
Charms
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Illustration of books
Subject:
Magic in art
Subject:
Maya incantations
Subject:
Mayas
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Ritual
Subject:
Shamans
Subject:
Spirits
Publisher:
Taller Leñateros
Contributor:
Past, Ambar
Date:
2007
Language:
English
Language:
Tzotzil
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 12 cm + 1 clay incense burner, 2 clay candle holders + 12 color candles in a cardboard case
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Boxes (containers)
Format/Medium:
Cardboard
Format/Medium:
Clothbound books
Format/Medium:
Gatefold books
Format/Medium:
Gilt edges
Format/Medium:
Gold leaf
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Marbled paper
Format/Medium:
Ribbon (material)
Format/Medium:
Terracotta (clay material)
Format/Medium:
Wax
Source:
Portable Mayan Altar: Pocket Books of Mayan Spells, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b12714914
Identifier:
i12139002
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
