Country: Cuba

Cuban graphic design history documented through scanned and collected artefacts, posters, and publications. Cuba produced some of the most distinctive political and cultural poster design of the twentieth century. A combination of European modernism, folk tradition, and political urgency into a wholly original visual language.

Cuban graphic design produced some of the most striking political and cultural poster work of the twentieth century. The Cuban poster tradition of the 1960s and 70s fused revolutionary politics with modernist graphic language. The archive documents Cuban design printed matter. See also Posters and 1960s graphic design history.

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The Danish Film Institute’s collection of Cuban Film Posters

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The Danish Film Institute’s collection of Cuban Film Posters

The Cuban film poster conveys the spirit and ideals of the Cuban revolution. A time of political change, an uprising that ended the brutal dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The Danish Film Institute have a collection of Cuban Film Posters from the past 50 years.

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