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¡Revolución! Cuban Poster Art. By Lincoln Cushing. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003. Pp. 131. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $19.95 paper.
This masterfully rendered collection is an important and welcome contribution to the study of Cuban poster art as a legitimate political and artistic medium. The author, who ironically was born in pre-revolutionary Cuba (to U.S. parents), recounts how he saw his first Cuban poster hanging on the wall of a student union in 1972: "I was impressed with its elegant and simple ability to convey the concept of solidarity" (p. 18). Since making his first trip to the...