PROTEST SONG Famed Cuban Silk-screen Poster for 60s Havana Cuba Music Conference

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The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Famed and rarely seen Cuban silkscreen poster, CANCION PROTESTA (PROTEST SONG), originally created for a Vietnam War-era 1967 conference on protest music at the Havana-based cultural organization Casa de las. This iconic poster, designed by Alfredo Rostgaard , was chosen to illustrate the cover of the 1970 book "The Art of Revolution, " which introduced the world to Cuban revolutionary poster art. CANCION PROTESTA was featured in the 2016 book. Hecho en Cuba: Cinema in the Cuban Graphics, which was published in Italy.

Another copy of this poster appeared at a 2017 exhibition at the Brussels Press Club. Most notably, Rostgaard's Cancion Protesta poster is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. The handmade poster we are offering (20 by 30 inches, a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame) was silk-screened in the Cuban Film Institute's workshop in. About a decade ago after Rostgaard's death in 2004. This poster was chosen by the Cuban Film Institute to be re-screened.

Beware of cheap, photocopied, mass-produced reproduction "Cuban posters" made in the. That lack the authenticity of the true Cuban silkscreens.

Condition of this poster is good. As with many Cuban movie posters, please note you might find some slight ripples or wrinkles in the white borders around the images and small imperfections elsewhere because this poster is, after all, handmade. We are also separately offering a book about the work of ALFREDO ROSTGAARD.

TITLE: CANCION PROTESTA, designed for a 1967 conference in Havana on protest music. 20 x 30 inches; 51 x 76 cm. The ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silk-screen workshop in. For more than 60 years, the. Cuban Film Institute has been designing silk-screened posters for most every movie shown on the island, whether the films originated in Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Japan or Italy.

In the midst of the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, many of the subtitled foreign films shown in. Came from the island nation's communist allies in the Soviet Union. Where movie posters are often dominated by images of. Stars, the Cubans assign a graphic artist to design an original piece of artwork for each film. These posters are widely recognized in graphic design circles.

As stylish works of art, handmade one color at a time and often under difficult circumstances at various times, paint and even paper have been in short supply on the island. S silk-screen movie posters are nothing less than museum pieces. Examples of Cuban poster art can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the globe from the Victoria & Albert in. As well as in prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress in. S movie posters are produced in relatively small numbers. Typically, a few hundred copies are made for each film, although the runs have been as low as 50.

Responding to demand from collectors, the Cuban Film Institute has re-screened some of its more popular posters. That's why some posters created in the 1960s and 1970s began reappearing on the. Island in the 1990s and 2000s.

Further adding to their collectability, many of. S vintage posters are imperiled. Although a few hundred copies may have been screened originally, relatively few have survived, due to the island's wet and humid climate, insect infestation, inadequate storage facilities in. To us, these survivors are rare beauties, even those with obvious flaws. We are proud to have rescued hundreds of posters from almost certain extinction by storing them in an air conditioned, acid-free environment.

We at the Cuban Poster Gallery offer. Both 1st and 2nd Edition posters. We consider both to be collectible, and (in response to a question we often get) all of these posters were legally imported because the.

Government exempts artwork from its economic embargo against. While the pricier originals are favored by some collectors, the re-screens are also collectible because they were made in the same. Note that we never sell unauthorized reproductions that have been cranked out in print shops in the. This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints".

The seller is "cubanpostergallery" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

Size: 20 x 30 inches; 51 x 76 cm
Handmade: Yes
Artist: Alfredo Rostgaard (1943-2004)
Production Technique: Serigraph & Silkscreen
Style: Pop Art
Material: Silk-screen on paper
Type: Poster
Title: CANCION PROTESTA (PROTEST SONG)
Subject: Music
Width (Inches): 20
Height (Inches): 30
ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba: EDITION: 2nd (see below for more details)