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Cuba Style: Graphics from the Golden Age of Design Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Steven Heller; Vicki Gold Levi


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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 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.

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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.

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  • Title Cuba Style: Graphics from the Golden Age of Design
  • Author Steven Heller; Vicki Gold Levi
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton Architectural Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 25, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781568983608 / 1568983603
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 8 x 0.63 in (22.23 x 20.32 x 1.60 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Cuba - History - 1933-1959, Commercial art - Cuba
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002007698
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.609

About the author

Steven Heller is the art director of the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of over ninety books on graphic design, popular art, and satiric art. He lives in New York City. Vicki Gold Levi is a historical picture editor, photography curator, and author who has worked for Esquire, Mirabella, and New Woman. Co-founder of the Atlantic City Historical Museum, she lives in New York City.
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