ABCDF. The Graphic Dictionary of Mexico City. Edited and with text by Cristina Faesler Bremer. Photographs by 250 photographers. Designed by Pablo Rovalo. Fundación Televisa and Editorial Diamatina, Mexico City, 2001. 1504 pp. 11.5 x 10 in./28.5 x 25.5 cm. With 24-page booklet laid in with an interactive CD-ROM (with photographs, short films, videos and sounds from Mexico City), glossary, bibliography and notes on the contributors. Faux-velvet cloth-covered boards in printed dust jacket. Nearly 1300 color and black-and-white reproductions. 'Suitcase' style slipcase with hologram image tipped on, plastic carrying handle.
ABCDF, The Graphic Dictionary of Mexico City, The Soul of Mexico, a book that reviews Mexico’s three-millennium old cultural heritage. How can artists capture the spirit of a city? What should they look at, focus upon, pay attention to? /This book / is a particularly interesting answer to these questions. The dictionary, organized in Spanish but containing full English translations, contains over 1,500 pages of breathtaking photographs, literary excerpts, and an extensive glossary that defines every word. (Circa 2001) CD-ROM, included.
Fine in very slightly faded slipcase.
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