10 Mounted Reproductions of Vintage 1960's Cuban Film Posters: Prints Sold Separately
Item Number: 368
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
10 Large Reproduction Prints; part of an Iconic limited edition collection of Cuban film posters made for the Cinema Festival of Havana throughout the 1960s and 70's. The collection is extremely beautiful, colorful, rare and unique. To see pictures of other 10 reproductions, please email us at Pbasker@baccagroup.org
Dimensions 20 in x 30 in
Special Instructions
For more than 50 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 Cuba came from the island nation's Communist allies in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and evenNorth Korea.
Unlike in the United States, where movie posters are often dominated by images ofHollywood 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 circlesas 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.)