Daniela Rocha : Art Book Design

Manuel Rocha Iturbide

Le système des objets

2024

Edited by The British Museum, 2023

The accompanying catalogue to the British Museum exhibition Burma to Myanmar.

This beautiful book explores the histories and cultures of Myanmar – also known as Burma – promoting readers to consider pre-existing notions of this complex country.

Known internationally for its long-running civil wars and pervasive poverty, it is a nation of rich natural resources – from teak and gold to jade and oil. Its geographical location has enabled it to participate in global and regional trade networks extending from India and China to Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Focusing on cross-cultural interactions and their impact on art and culture, Burma to Myanmar examines early connections with India before looking at regional kingdoms and empires that arose between the 11th and 18th centuries. During the period of British colonial rule (1826–1948), there were radical cultural, religious, social, political and artistic changes, in many instances setting the stage for the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Following the destruction of the Second World War and a brief democratic period from 1948 to 1962, the military stepped in, isolating the country and leading to the situation of today.

This book provides a compelling history of Myanmar through an enormous variety of objects stretching from the 500s CE to the present. They range from ceramic tablets to royal costumes, stunning textiles and impressive maps, as well as modern currency and contemporary painting.

The accompanying paperback catalogue to the British Museum exhibition Feminine Power: the divine to the demonic.

By Belinda Crerar

Preface by Mary Beard

Divine women – in many guises – have featured in every world faith, from deep history until the present day, inspiring people and cultures across the world. In a cross-cultural and global approach, this book discusses Eve alongside Inanna, Radha and Aphrodite in the context of sex and desire, while in the chapter in evil, witches and Hecate are compared with other deities like Lamashtu and the Cihuateotl, as well as monstrous women such as Taraka, Medusa, Rangda and Lilith. Ideas of justice and defence are explored in the figures of Athena, Sekhmet and Kali, and the final chapter on compassion and salvation uncovers links between Isis, Mary, Tara and Guanyin.

The publication concludes with a discussion of contemporary art and modern interpretations of goddesses. Until the mid-twentieth century, the disciplines of theology, archaeology and history were heavily dominated by male academics, resulting in the under-representation of women’s experiences and fewer studies on female divinity. This timely book, which is packed with fascinating insights into different cultures and beliefs, seeks to redress that balance.

Tamayo: a Modern Icon Reinterpreted
Texts by Diana C. Dupont, Karen Cordero Reiman, Adriana Zavala y Juan Carlos Pereda, among others

Catalogue of the first great exhibition in 28 years in the United States about the brilliant Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991), gathered at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art about one hundred Most relevant works of this artist.
In this complete catalog, profusely illustrated with the pictures displayed, several Mexican and foreign experts make a journey through the career of one of the most brilliant Mexican painters of all time.

First edition, 2006
Printed in colour
464 pp.
Hardcover
29.5 x 24 cm
ISBN 978-84-7506-746-9
Special Edition for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA

Up to the present time, Armando Romero has had more than 25 individual exhibitions and has taken part in more than one hundred group exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and several European countries. He was granted a FONCA fellowship and has been awarded with many prizes for his paintings and sculptures.

Published in Spain, by Turner Libros, 2015

This publication encompasses seven decades that attest to the artistic evolution of Dr. Atl and his contributions to the modern art of Mexico; it shows his portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and sky-landscapes; the latter have a very unique inner movement and chromatic quality, which result of the use of the curvilinear perspective and the so-called Alt colors by the artist. Thanks to them the volcanos Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl y Paricutín emerge from the paintings as protagonists whose life pumps over the canvas.

Dr. Atl

Dr. Atl is the pseudonym of the Mexican painter and writer whose real name was Gerardo Murillo (Guadalajara, Jalisco, October 8, 1875 - Mexico City, August 15, 1964) was a painter, politician, writer, volcanologist, essayist and journalist.

Edition — Sep 2012

Dr. Atl — Author

Size: 24 x 30 cm Pages: 384Bookbinding: Cloth with jacketISBN: 978-84-939478-0-4Series: Arte y FotoLanguage: Spanish and English

Published by Profesor Luis-Martín Lozano, 2011

Book on the most important art collection in Mexico, the Pérez Simón, collection.

texts by
BRUCE W. FERGUSON
KEVIN POWER
BARRY SCHWABSKY
interview by
OMAR PASCUAL CASTILLO

Published by Editorial TURNER, 2010

Published by Patricia Martín, Mexico, 2010

Fernando Botero
50 years of work
Texts by Álvaro Mutis, Miguel Ángel Echegaray and Eduardo García Aguilar

This book presents a compendium of more than 100 pieces, among oils, drawings and sculptures, both monumental and small format; Made between 1949 and 2000 by the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, celebrating his 50 years of artistic career. The works are accompanied by texts by Álvaro Mutis, Miguel Ángel Echegaray and Eduardo García Aguilar, which show us the life of Botero as a man and as an artist.

First Edition, 2001
Printed in color
176 pp.
Bound in carton,
31 x 24 cm
Isbn 968-5011-15-X
Special edition for the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso / Oceano

DIEGO RIVERA Y EL CUBISMO. MEMORIA Y VANGUARDIA
Texts by Profesor Luis Martín Lozano, and Laura González Matute,
Claudia Morales Flores y Marina Vázquez

Diego Rivera, known internationally for his murals and easel work, has been little studied in his work in Europe, in which he assimilated the artistic tendencies of the beginning of the twentieth century, from Impressionism to the neoclassic avant-garde. This is the catalog of the exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico. The catalog is conformed with select works of private and public collections of the cubist works most outstanding of the European trajectory of the Mexican painter.

Published in Mexico, 2004
ISBN 968-5011-40-0

Published in Mexico City, by Tres Picos, 2015

One of the most important artist of his generation, he was born in Mexico in 1971.  He lives and works in Mexico City.

Published by Turner Libros, 2008

Leticia Feduchi

Barcelona, 2022

Zalípoli Editorial

Texts by Margaret Hooks
Photograph by Sally Mann, Gabriel Figueroa Flores, Lourdes Almeida, Graciela Iturbide, Jorge Vértiz, Mariana Yampolsky, among others

Edward James was an eccentric English aristocrat, poet, patron and architect. In these pages he captures his extraordinary life as well as the creation of his masterpiece, the surrealist landscape of Las Pozas. Despite his various trips to Europe and the United States, it was in Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, where Edward James found his true home. Las Pozas, nestled in the jungle mountains was the space created by James with the help of his friend Plutarch Gastélum and various local artisans of Huasteco and Otomi origin, which transformed into an authentic "Garden of Eden" that still surprises by its creative complexity.

Published in Mexico, 2005
ISBN 84-7506-671-2

Published in Mexico, 2015

Trees by Teresa Cito.

5 concertina books, 16 pages each, hold by a bellyband.

Published and edited by Daniela Rocha and Teresa Cito on 2020

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”

― Herman Hesse

Frida Kahlo, diary

First facsimile edition of the Personal diary of the famous Mexican painter, that she did during the last years of her life. She collected reflections on her relationship with Diego Rivera, testimonies torn from her fragile physical condition and declarations of revolutionary faith and will to live. In addition, in its 170 pages, drawings and watercolors reveal the skill of this artist to express the most intimate areas of his strong personality.
This edition shows for the first time to a wide audience the document preserved for 40 years in the Casa Azul of Coyoacán, residence of the couple Kahlo-Rivera. Accompany the facsimile with a transcript of the Journal.

Published by La Vaca Independiente, 1994
2 volumes
Leather Bound with case,
Isbn 968-7318-25-2

Correspondence between Frida Kahlo and Leo Eloesser

Texts by Arnoldo Kraus, Juan Pascoe, Teresa del Conde, Carlos Monsiváis

This facsimile, commented and illustrated edition of the correspondence between Frida Kahlo and Dr. Leo Eloesser attests to the painter's talent with words. The letters are autobiography, poem, game, demonstration of affection and testimony in the handwriting of the constant pain that Frida Kahlo suffered throughout her life.

Published by DGE Equilibrista in 2007

Published in London to celebrate the Dual Year between Mexico and the UK, 2015

Published by UNAM, Mexico, 2016

Texts by Hugo Hiriart & Jorge F. Hernández
Photography by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Nacho López,
Héctor García, among others

Published in 2004 celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. 

Award wining Quorum 2005

First edition, 2004
104 pp.
Paperback
27 x 21.5 cm
ISBN 968-5011-41-9
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes

El eco está en todas partes

Published by Alias editorial, Mexico, 2013

Texts by Felipe Leal and Ernesto Betancourt
Pictures of Lourdes Legorreta among others

This book is the catalog of the exhibition of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City, where a sample of the work of Ricardo Legorreta, one of the most important architects of Mexico and of the international plane, was presented. It includes a text by Ernesto Betancourt that analyses the work of Legorreta and various introductions and worksheets of Felipe Leal, who starts from the great themes of the architect's work (big projects, houses, light and water), to point out some Of the conductive threads of his work.

PRIZE a! DESIGN 2006

Ciudad Universitaria.
Cincuenta años 1952-2002

With a tradition of more than four centuries, the National Autonomous University of Mexico has evolved along with the country and has consolidated itself as one of the pillars of the national culture. This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the University City, whose construction has also been one of the most relevant events in the Mexican architectural scene, and which has most determined the growth and way of life in the Federal District of the last half century . The edition has photos of the different stages of construction of the place, plans and testimonies of its protagonists.

Quorum award 2002

Published in 2002
isbn 968-36-7990-0
 

Published by Universidad Autónoma de México (PUEG), 2013

Texts by Marisa Belausteguigoitia

Los ecos de Mathias Goeritz
Ida Rodríguez Prampolini, Ferruccio Asta
and Natalia Carriazo, among others

Two volumes are derived from the exhibition of the same name presented in the Old College of San Ildefonso. The exhibition includes 500 works by the German-Mexican artist, who emigrated to Mexico in 1949, as well as essays and testimonies about his life and work. Architect, sculptor, painter, urbanist and art theorist, Mathias Goeritz made his artistic production in Mexico, Spain, Israel and the United States, with a strong expressionist influence.
His works include the Satellite Towers, which he and the Mexican architect Luis Barragán, the snake at the entrance to the Pedregal de San Ángel and the Sculpture Space, now daily reference points in Mexico City.

Published in Mexico, 1997
isbn 970-18-0736-7

Markets in Mexico and the world
Robert J. Schiller, Delfín Rodríguez

The market –foundational element of the life of man in society–, is not only a place of exchange of goods and services, but the symbol of cultural identity and the economy of a community. It is also a social manifestation and a showcase of each population, hence its usual relationship with holidays. In this original work, the authors reflect on the role of the market in the constitution of different societies. The essays are accompanied by profuse illustrations and quotations from famous writers about the different markets of Mexico and the world.

Published by DGE Equilibrista, Mexico

Museo Nacional de Arte

In its first part, this book presents, the history of the building where its facilities are located, in its second chapter presents a richly illustrated account of its collection and, in its third chapter, recounts the history of one of the most important cultural centers of Mexico City. How the Munal has been building its spaces, forming its rooms and guiding its routes and services. Among the works of art that can be seen in its pages, we find artists such as Rafael Ximeno and Planes, Miguel Cabrera, Cristóbal de Villalpando, Luis Juárez, Baltasar de Echave Ibía and José María Velasco, among others.

First Edition, 2003
Printed in color
224 pp.
Bound in carton,
27 x 21 cm
Isbn 968-5827-00-1
Special edition for the National Museum of Art

Helen Escobedo: Footsteps in the sand
Graciela Schmilchuk
Prologued by Dore Ashton

The author of this book traces the creative history of the artist Helen Escobedo in three stages: the formative phase, with the practice of drawing and bronze; The architectural design, environments, graphic design and objects, and the stage marked by his preference for ephemeral installations. The numerous photographs show works that we can still enjoy, such as sculptures, graphics and architecture, as well as those that, by their own character and conception, were predestined not to remain for a long time.

First Edition, 2001
Printed in color
271 pp.
Binding in paperback,
30 x 24 cm
Isbn 968-5011-20-6
Co-publication with the National Council for Culture and Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico / Turner

Risking the abstract: Mexican modernism and the art of Gunther Gerzso
Texts by Diana C. Du Pont, Profesor Luis Martín Lozano, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro

This catalog is a product of the effort of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico and gives an account of the most important aspects of the artist's creative production, as well as a reflection on the importance and validity of his legacy In our times. The edition has a magnificent reproduction of his work.

First Edition, 2003
Isbn 970-35-0116-8
Special Edition for Museum of Santa Barbara, California /
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
 

Viaje a la Semilla. Teresa Cito (painter)

Published in Mexico, 2014

Asociación Cultural 2 de mayo, Bilbao, España

Published in Spain, 2010

Publication of the competition for ephemeral architectures, organized by the May 2 Association in Bilbao, Spain

Jury:

Asier Santas Torres (Bilbao, 1972)
Luis Suárez Mansilla (Oviedo, 1974)
José Ramón Bañales Urkullu (Baracaldo-1962)
Ines Marina Peña (Bellas Artes y otras cosas)

Published in Mexico in 2010

The life and work of Rufino Tamayo has been reviewed by renowned national and foreign intellectuals. This luxury volume reproduces one of the great texts of the Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, Transfiguraciones, written about the Oaxacan artist in 1973, where he delves into the forms and motifs of his work, full of references to his influences and contrasts. The volume has a rigorous and novel selection of the work of easel of the painter, printed independently on Imperial Phoenix paper of 150 grams and pasted on the pages of the book, while the texts are printed on paper Gardapat of 200 grams. It also includes a chronology that accounts for his training, the exhibitions he made, both in Mexico and in other countries, and the awards he received throughout his life

🏆 QUORUM AWARD 2004

A New Art: The Contribution of María Izquierdo

Published by Colección Blastein, 2008