Crononauta
Jodorowsky, Alejandro; Rebetez, Rene [Directors]
Sold by HS Rare Books, ILAB/ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by HS Rare Books, ILAB/ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Add to basketGroundbreaking Mexican artistic and science fiction magazine, the first of its kind
Issues I and II, the complete publication. 4to, (195 x 135 mm). 42 pp., (3)3-54 pp., 96 pp. Original editor's covers, just lightly worn, else perfect. Aside from minor signs of use, some leaves bound upside down as often, exceptional condition.
First and only editions of the first and second issues - the only issues published - of this extraordinary Mexican artistic and science fiction magazine, exceptionally rare.
Crononauta was an experimental science fiction and fantasy editorial project, arguably the first of its kind to be produced in Mexico; the science fiction was a means to an artistic experimentation. In the magazine, several influential Mexican artists and writers contributed, as well as translations from foreign writers, amongst them: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Carlos Solórzano, Catherin Harle-Normandin, Charles Fourier, Fernando Arrabal, Gérard Griffon, Hans Arp, L. West, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vicente Huidobro, etc.From its origins the magazine promised to fill an important gap in Hispanic literature "Llenar un enorme vacío de la literatura hispano hablante," that of locally produced science fiction, a cultural project by Rebetez; in its presentation, the magazine self-defined as a little monster that came from a wise dimension, similar to the creatures of H. P. Lovecraft. "las ideas sobre la proyección de un territorio disruptivo y radical se extendieronhacia distintas coordenadas de enunciación que dieron origen en 1964 al primer trabajo colaborativo entre Jodorowsky-Prullansky y Rebetez, en diálogo con Luis Urías: Crononauta. [14] Se trató de un proyecto editorial experimental de cienciaficción y fantasía, primera inscripción que reunió el trabajo de artistas plásticos y escritores latinoamericanos, norteamericanos y franceses en el siglo XX, llamados a la búsqueda de un nuevo género más allá del mundo anglosajón." (Regina Tattersfield, Múltiples planos en el viaje del Crononauta. La cienciaficción como ruta de experimentación artística en los (largos) años sesenta, Caiana, ISSN, 2313-9242). "Crononauta tuvo solamente dos números, cuyas portadas en blanco, negro y rojo fueron realizadas por Alejandro Jodorowsky (Figs. 5 y 6). Ambas refieren ala técnica de yuxtaposición de imágenes o collage que combina objetos, fotografías y dibujos de distintos órdenes, y recuerdan a los soportes y registros de las vanguardias, en especial al dadaísmo y surrealismo. [15] La imagen de la portada del primer número [16] se reproduce como fondo en la segunda página que presenta a la revista." (Tattersfield).
Exceptionally rare, we can't locate a single copy in the United States according to OCLC, and only one copy worldwide, at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institute. No copy has been offered at auction according to RBH.
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