Diagramming Modernity: Books and Graphic Design in Latin America, 1920–1940 Boston2023 This tribute to printed currency

This tribute to printed currency is also a showcase of the engraver’s art and a reminder that every square inch needs to be considered—because someday someone might make a book of those inches

Here’s a bookplate for Georg Christ about whom we know nothing save for the fact that he liked wide valleys and tall heights

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29 × 53 mm

Sometimes it can be paper figures by graphic designers

Diagramming Modernity: Books and Graphic Design in Latin America, 1920–1940 Boston2023 This tribute to printed currencyThis massive book offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book from the 1920s through 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The books reproduced encapsulate this transformative era, expressing and embodying emergent national and continental narratives in Latin American countries. Diagramming Modernity reproduces more than one friggin thousand illustrated books, analyzing the