Street graphics Cuba / Barry Dawson.

By:

Dawson, Barry

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2001.Description: 110 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0500282692

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Review: "Much of today's most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery can be found in the street. All over the world, the street has become a public art gallery of visual icons, each city with permanent collections and temporary exhibits, each country with its own much-loved identity." "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, the streets provide a venue to enjoy the nostalgia of the chrome trim and high tail fins of 1950s automobiles, Cohiba cigars, pre-Revolution Coke signs, the ever-popular Bacardi and all the excitement of the Buena Vista Social Club." "Barry Dawson's photographic eye captures it all in an inspirational, all-color ideas book for designers, an evocative medley of impressions for visitors - and would-be visitors - to Cuba and an entertaining cornucopia for the visually curious."--BOOK JACKET.

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Title notes ( 2 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Open Collection	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	Open Collection	FCUC Library	704.093014 DAW 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00013305

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"Much of today's most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery can be found in the street. All over the world, the street has become a public art gallery of visual icons, each city with permanent collections and temporary exhibits, each country with its own much-loved identity." "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, the streets provide a venue to enjoy the nostalgia of the chrome trim and high tail fins of 1950s automobiles, Cohiba cigars, pre-Revolution Coke signs, the ever-popular Bacardi and all the excitement of the Buena Vista Social Club." "Barry Dawson's photographic eye captures it all in an inspirational, all-color ideas book for designers, an evocative medley of impressions for visitors - and would-be visitors - to Cuba and an entertaining cornucopia for the visually curious."--BOOK JACKET.

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