Lacre: Revista de Comunicación Alternativa # 1-2.
Mexico City: La Tinta Morada,1983.
First issue has 11 leaves including colophon and laid-in statement as well as two ribbon-bound leave, second issue has 10 leaves. Each issue has a paper bag.
Spanish.
Edition of 100 each.
Good.
Evidence of moisture exposure which caused wrinkling and staining, but largely minor and still a beautiful, intricate complete example of this rare Mexican Artists' magazine.
Rubber-stamped brown paper bags have some wrinkling and tearing/ chipping + damage from opening wax seal. Minor light soiling. Second bag has "El Deseo" written in sharpie on front. Issues were originally tied with ribbon, the first issue's green ribbon is present, but second issue's ribbon is not.
All leaves of both issues present and collated. Maria Eugenia Guerra's contribution is a folded piece of printed paper attached to a string which was glued to the inside left of Ana Zarate's folded sheet, but the glue has dried out and now Guerra's piece is laid in. Deepak Lakshminarayana's Love Fantasy & Alonso Leal Güeman's Amore de Fantasía are the English and Spanish versions of the same text and are tied together with red ribbon. Love Fantasy has staining to text. Leal's text has wrinkling. Magali Lara's contribution has some wrinkling and staining.
Second issue is largely clean. Composed of 10 folding leaves including one colophon. Othon Tellez's and Manuel Zavala's leaves have some minor soiling. Felipe Leal's leaf bottom right corner has small crease and bend.
issue 1 features Diego Toledo, Manuel Marin, Gerfrans, Ana Zarate / Maria Eugenia Guerra, Raul Cardoso, Deepak Lakshminarayana, Alonso Leal Güeman, Armando Saez C., and Magali Lara.
Issue 2 features Othon Tellez, Manuel Zavala, Alberto Castro Lénero, Francisco Pellicer Graham, Paloma Diaz Abreu With photography by Rogelio Cuéllar, Eduardo Chavez, Ruben Ortiz, Felipe Leal, and El Fisgon.
"Lacre: Revista de Comunicación Alternativa," was a handmade artists' magazine published in a limited edition of approximately 100. The magazine consisted of unbound sheets tied with a ribbon, and was contained in a brown paper bag sealed with wax-hence the title Lacre, which means "sealing wax." Lacre published a wide variety of media including prints, drawings, collage, hand-stitching, watercolor, and rubber stamps. The editorial board was composed of Maria Teresa Cervantes, Alicia García Bergua, Ana Garcia Bergua, Alonso Leaf Güemes, Gertrudis Martinez de Hoyos Delamain, Francisco Pellicer Graham, Alejandra Queredo Runne, and Armando Sáenz Carrillo."
- Page 272, Artists' Magazines by Gwen Allen. MIT Press, 2011.
OCLC: NYPL (based on their cataloging, second issue is incomplete), MOMA, University of Notre Dame, U of C San Diego, U of C Irvine, Getty, and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
