Description

Privately Printed, Mexico [Published date: 1995]. Hard cover, includes 32 single page black and white plates with descriptions in Spanish and English. Introductory essay by Efrain Huerta in Spanish and English. Stated First Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Oversized (folio) blue cloth covered boards with blind stamped illustration on front and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A collection of etchings of Pereznieto's beloved city. [From jacket flap] Fernando Pereznieto, well known Mexican artist, sculptor, etcher and architect, studied at the National University of Mexico and the Villa Schifanoia in Florence, Italy. A great passion for his art has taken him through a perfect technique, to acquire gradually growth and vigor into the world of fantasy. In America and Europe has presented over 50 personal exhibitions. For the quality of his work has received important prizes in Mexico and Italy. 24 of his books have been published. Splendid text of his art have been written by Carlos Fuentes, Salvador Novo, Efrain Huerta, Juan Jose Arreola, Luis Ortiz Macedo, Marcello Venturoli, Piero Bargellini, Salvador Elizondo y Carlos Pellicer, among others. Fernando Pereznieto divides his work as well as his life into the cities of Mexico and Florence. Here are presented 32 etchings full of love and passion for the fantastic city of Guanajuato.