Street Graphics Cuba
Barry Dawson
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| 'As vivacious as Cuban music' | | - iD |
Much of today’s most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery is all around us, in the street. Cuba has a unique place in these international street galleries. Its colonial past and its Revolution, invoked everywhere in utopian images, have created something vibrantly distinct.
Beyond the ideology, this is the venue to enjoy the nostalgia of the chrome trim and high tail fins of 1950s automobiles, the locale for Cohiba cigars, pre-Revolution enamel Coke signs, the ever-popular Bacardi rum and all the excitement of the Buena Vista Social Club.
Barry Dawson’s brilliant photographic eye captures it all in an all-colour ideas book for students and practitioners of design, an evocative medley of impressions for visitors – and would-be visitors – to Cuba, and an inspirational journey for the visually curious.
Barry Dawson's previous publications include Street Graphics India, The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia and Arts and Crafts of India.
Also of interest:
Blek Le Rat: Getting Through the Walls
Graffiti World
Houses of Old Cuba
Island Dreams: Caribbean
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500282692 | | ISBN-13 978-0500282694 | | | | 23.0 x 22.0 cm | | Paperback | | 112pp | | 214 illustrations, 210 in colour | | First published 2001 | | | | £12.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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