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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NC 998.6 .C9 L48 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 636134 |
NC 998.6 .A78 A85 2010 Asian graphics now! / | NC 998.6 .B75 2003 The 40th Annual of the Best in British and International Design and Advertising 2002. | NC 998.6 .B87 1999 Buro Destruct. | NC 998.6 .C9 L48 2002 Cuba style : graphics from the golden age of design / | NC 998.6 .E85 B478 1999 Best of European design and advertising. | NC 998.6 .E87 E555 2010 Epica book 23 : Europe's best advertising. | NC 998.6 .E87 E65 2011 Epica book 24 : Europe’s best advertising / |
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national republic of Cuba. To usher in the centenary, Steven Heller and Vicki Gold Levi have collected hundreds of vintage graphics of Cuba from the 1920s to the 1969 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.
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