Books and Magazines as Expanded Spaces for Curatorial Practice

María Andrea Giovine Yáñez — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This text aims to propose, through examples of the Mexican context, that books and magazines are curatorial devices in which images coexist with textuality, generating specific ways of seeing. Hence, the enormous power of the bibliohemerographic circuit for the dissemination of the arts. The text presents the difference between what is defined as “neomedial curatorial devices”, where books and magazines show visual works made expressly for the pages of a publication, and “transmedial curatorial devices”, in which we see works of art (paintings, sculptures, installations, murals, etc.) that appear on the pages of illustrated prints through a photographic reproduction. The sequence of the pages and the editorial decisions (lay out of the page) generate a series of semantic associations that constitute the text-image curatorial practice and impact the reading through contiguity of texts and images that form a curatorial unit.

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Books and Magazines as Expanded Spaces for Curatorial Practice