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Steven Heller (Hrsg.), Vicki Gold Levi (Hrsg.)
Cuba Style
Graphics from the Golden Age of Design |
To usher in the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national republic of Cuba, Steven Heller and Vicki Gold Levi have collected hundreds of vintage graphics of Cuba from the 1920s to the 1959 revolution. Cuba Style recalls the days of glory when the island was a veritable resort colony for Americans and Europeans who came in search of Latino music and dancing, gambling, tropical romance, and the best beaches in the Americas.
To advertise these attractions, Cubano graphistos combined elements of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus modernism, and Vegas-style kitsch in a distinctly Cuban sensibility. Cuba Style, the first book of its kind, reproduces a treasure trove of graphics from popular magazines, packaging, posters, and indigenous products such as liquor and cigars. It is a visual history of Cuba in its golden age as well as a wellspring of capitalist extravagance, seen here through the rare graphics of its extraordinary and now lost popular culture.
Der Herausgeber
Steven Heller is a senior art director at The New York Times and is the co-author of several other Art Deco titles for Chronicle Books.
Pressestimmen
". . .a distinctive body of free-spirited work."
(I.D. Magazine, April 2003)
"intoxicating and exotic"
(The Palm Beach Post, March 9, 2003)
"CUBA STYLE extols the virtues of this 'golden age' of graphic design."
(Book News, Inc., December 4, 2002)
"...an elegant fusion of styles...It's all so modern, mixed with a touch of irony and omnipresent fun...Feast on these images..."
(Tropical Chic, El Nuevo Herald, Enrique Fernandez, April 1, 2003)
"Reproduced from magazines, advertisements and souvenirs, the sum of CUBA STYLE equals a nostalgic tour of pre-Castro Cuba at the height of its capitalist hunger."
(Florida International Magazine, March 2003)
"Designers can't help but love this colorful collection of vintage graphics....you'll wish you had the postcards in your hands and the posters on your walls."
(El Nuevo Herald, November 23, 2002)
Princeton Architectural Press, 2002, 168 S.
19,50 Euro
Broschiert
ISBN: 978-1-56898-360-8
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