Book Design and Print Management

Avant-Garde Art and Artists in Mexico

Client
University of Texas Press, 2010

Award
AUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, 2011

2 slipcased volumes | Hardcovers | 9 x 10 inches | 901 pages | Over 600 images

In 1920s Mexico City, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros explored how art could advance revolutionary ideas—and, in the process, spent countless hours talking and partying in what would come to be called the Mexican Renaissance. Enter Anita Brenner, a jewish bon vivant in her early twenties, who was already a journalist, art critic, and anthropologist. Her journals, photographs, and art collection from the period 1925 to 1930 vividly transport us to this vital moment in Mexico, when building a “new nation” was essential.

A tome, Avant-Garde Art and Artist in Mexico, presented a myriad of design and production challenges. Namely, correcting and preparing all 600+ pieces of artwork and photographs for reproduction on an offset press and then working with the binder to design and build the specialty slipcases.