Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art

By Lincoln Cushing,

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Draws on national archives to present 150 works commissioned by the Cuban government following the Cuban Revolution, in a volume that includes works designed to rally citizens to rebuild, promote massive sugar harvests, support literacy campaigns, and more. Original.

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Lincoln Cushing was born in pre-revolutionary Cuba to a State Department official with the U.S. Information Agency. I first met Lincoln at a conference on the Global Sixties and he later introduced me to his extensive poster and political graphics collection. This book, one of several by Cushing on political posters, documents Cuba’s extraordinary post-revolutionary poster art, which became renowned the world over in left-wing circles. Cushing has in-depth knowledge of the printing processes involved and was granted direct access to many of the most well-known graphic artists who stayed in Cuba to collaborate with the regime. If you’re…

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