CÓDICE MADERO: BRIAN NISSEN

México: Galería Pecanins, 1983. one folio folded accordion style, chiefly color plates, dark green boards. plus one [4] page booklet. Cover title. Cover title. Imprint from inside back cover; Imprenta Madero from briannissen.com. Artist's book with images involving rituals of games and play; based on the format of the Pre-Colombian screen-fold codices. Accordion-fold binding. Issued in printed envelope. Edition of artist by Brian Nissen (London, 1939, has lived and works in New York and Mexico since 1978) who creates a modern codex dedicated to childhood and adult games, remembering the Pre-Columbian god of games Macuiloxochitl and the British author Lewis Carroll. Collector's edition, printed outside of commerce. Brian Nissen says that the codices he makes are a permanent source from which he draws his art. Undoubtedly there we find the traces or textures that are the origin of many of his works. His codices are a concentration of imagery and styles, a great catalog of colors and shapes, find and found objects. Only two records in OCLC.
REF: Era de la discrepancia, p. 192.