ANIMA MUNDI

Lagarde, Patricia

Published by Ediciones Escarabajo, México, D.F., 2023

Handmade edition using diverse analog printing techniques: toned Cyanotype (alternative photographic blueprint), letterpress and Vandyke process onto Japanese paper, bound in blue cloth covers with hand painted central plate with gold illustration of planets, sig. SIGNED, NUMBERED OF LIMITED EDITION 4/17. Book artist by visual artist and photographer Patricia Lagarde (b. México, 1961) inspired in the philosophical concept of "anima mundi" (Latin for soul of the world), the fundamental connection between all living beings and the world around them, in the same way the soul is connected to the human body. Is it to exist, the will of the universe? It occurs to me to think that in the beginning things spoke a single language, a universal language forgotten by us today, perhaps the antelopes and the daffodil remember it. " Winner of the "Medalla al Mérito Fotográfico , Mexico, 2023 . Patricia Lagarde was born in Mexico City, where she currently lives and works. Studies in Communication and Graphic Design. She develops in the middle of photography from an early age. Her work revolves around three fundamental axes; the object as a symbol, the construction of memory and the poetics of space. Her images and artist books have been shown in Museums, Galleries and Fairs in various countries around the world. CONTENTS: A. Cosmos / Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: La gota, José Emilio Pacheco -- Kanagawa oki nami ura, Hokusai, inverted fragment (watermark) -- B. Eva, Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype, Text: 1. Popol Vuh -- 2. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso -- 3. Metaphysics, Aristotle -- 4. Metaphysics, Aristotle -- 5. Hamlet, Shakespeare -- 6. The book of Genesis -- 7. The Planets, Dava Sovel -- 8. Stephen Hawking's final theory about the big bang -- 9. The Evolution of the Universe James E. Peebles in collaboration -- 10. Marguerite Yourcenar -- 11. The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral, Diane Ackerman -- 12. Ka, Roberto Calasso, ancient Vedic text -- 13. Giordano Bruno -- 14. Epicurus on Free Volition' and the Atomic Swerve, Jeffrey S. Purinton -- 15. Aurea Catena Homeri -- 16. The celestial hunter, Roberto Calasso -- 17. El Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges -- Lepus Constellation, Johann Bayer (watermark) -- C. Arcana, Or, Printed By George Smeeton / James Stratford, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: Plants used or mentioned explicitly as medicinal in the Bible (fragment), Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Allgemeiner Schulatlas v. Rv. L. Berlin, fragment (watermark) -- D. Antilopes, Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: The celestial hunter, Roberto Calasso. Target wheel (watermark) -- E. Dandelion, Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: Fragment DK 12B1, Anaximander -- F. Pulstilla nigricans. Offic., Anton Stoerck, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Narcissi in Basilius Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, Fragment (watermark) -- G. Cosmos II, Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: The expulsion of the triumphant beast, Giordano Bruno -- H. Jellyfish, Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: Carlos Pellicer. Hamonshi, Japan (watermark) -- I. Mundo, Patricia Lagarde, tea-dyed cyanotype. Text: Ennead, Plotinus. Trilobite fossil (watermark)(119972) $6,000.00. Patricia Lagarde was awarded the Medal of Photographic Merit 2023, from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/patricia-lagarde-arquitecta-de-mundos-oniricos-recibira-la-medalla-al-merito-fotografico-2023?idiom=es-MX. Seller Inventory # 119972

Bibliographic Details

Title: ANIMA MUNDI
Publisher: Ediciones Escarabajo, México, D.F.
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Soft cover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)