Cuba Style
Subtitle: Graphics from the Golden Age of Design
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781568983608
Subjects: Graphic design; Popular Culture - General; Graphic Arts - General; Commercial art; Art & Art Instruction; Latin America - General; History: World; Latin America; Graphic arts; Art / Graphic Arts; 20th century; Cuba; Design; History
First sentence: THE BIKINI - CLAD COLOSSUS (OPPOSITE) TOWERING OVER THE TINY island of Cuba personifies a myth inverted by the travel industry that was common during the early 1950s.
Description: "Cuban graphistos heightened the island's appeal by creating a unique visual style that combined elements of art nouveau, art deco, European modernism, and Vegas-style kitsch with a distinctly Cuban sensibility. The first book of its kind, Cuba Style reproduces a treasure trove of vintage graphics from the 1920s to the revolution.

Culled from period posters, magazines, advertisements, tourist brochures, postcards, product designs, and packaging, the images collected here by Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller create a visual history of Cuba's golden age as a wellspring of capitalist extravagance and capture the spirit of the now-lost popular culture of the island nation."--BOOK JACKET.