New book by SLA member

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From: Lincoln Cushing (lcushing@library.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 09:05:06 PDT 

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:05:06 -0700
From: Lincoln Cushing <lcushing@library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: New book by SLA member

SLA colleagues-

I'm proud to announce that after 10 years of research and a year of writing
"Revolucion: Cuban Poster Art" has been published by Chronicle Books.
Here's the promo blurb:

"Produced with unprecedented access to Cuban national archives, this book
assembles nearly 150 of these powerful but little-seen works of popular
art. From the 1960s through the 1980s, the posters rallied the Cuban people
to the huge task of building a new society, promoted massive sugar harvests
and national literacy campaigns; opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam; and
celebrated films, music, dance, and baseball with a unique graphic wit and
exuberant colorful style. Includes an introduction illuminating the rich
social and artistic history of the posters and biographical information on
the artists themselves."

I have also posted a web page with an introduction to some of the material
at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/CubaGen.html

I'm encouraging people to buy it at their local independent bookstores. In
the San Francisco Bay Area, this includes Black Oak (where I will be doing
a reading Monday, June 30) and Cody's, where UC librarians and faculty are
eligible for a 20% discount. For those who wish to order on line, I
recommend the ILWU workers website of Powell's Books,
http://www.powellsunion.com/

Lincoln Cushing
Electronic Outreach Librarian
Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley
Institute for Labor and Employment
2521 Channing Way #5555
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-1056
http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/library/

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