In the late 1970s and early 80s, artist's books exploded in Mexico City. The impetus for this explosion has often been located in the artistic practice of the experimental artist Felipe Ehrenberg and the bookmaking workshops he offered beginning in 1976. While Ehrenberg was undoubtedly influential, this essay reexamines the history of this period—a so-called Golden Epoch of independent publishing in Mexico––in order to recuperate the significant role that feminist-aligned artists played in advancing the medium of the artist's book. In particular, I examine early editions produced by the artists Magali Lara and Yani Pecanins. Both prolific producers and staunch advocates for the artist's book medium, Lara and Pecanins wielded the book form's unique qualities in order to interrogate and validate aspects of women's experience that were often elided from both Mexican popular culture and the contemporaneous experimental art scene. Their early artist's books were conduits for feminist expression that pushed the limits of formal experimentation and forged new circuits of communication.

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“出书就是繁衍”：艺术家的书籍和墨西哥的女权主义表达

20 世纪 70 年代末和 80 年代初，艺术家书籍在墨西哥城激增。这种爆炸性的推动力往​​往在于实验艺术家费利佩·埃伦伯格 (Felipe Ehrenberg) 的艺术实践以及他从 1976 年开始举办的书籍制作工作坊。虽然埃伦伯格无疑具有影响力，但本文重新审视了这一时期的历史——所谓的黄金时代墨西哥独立出版的发展——为了恢复女权主义艺术家在推进艺术家书籍媒介方面所发挥的重要作用。我特别研究了艺术家 Magali Lara 和 Yani Pecanins 制作的早期版本。拉拉和佩卡宁斯既是多产的制作人，也是艺术家书籍媒介的坚定拥护者，他们利用书籍形式的独特品质来质疑和验证墨西哥流行文化和当代实验艺术场景中经常被忽视的女性经历的各个方面。他们早期的艺术家书籍是女权主义表达的渠道，突破了正式实验的极限，并建立了新的沟通渠道。