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The book, as a means of artistic expression, has been explored since the beginning of editorial practices. Design, music, theatre, literature, cinema, among other forms of creative expression, are parts of a whole that constitute book art and independent publishing, whose expres…

In the decades after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, state-commissioned posters articulated and shaped official models of socialist feminine citizenship. Drawing on graphic propaganda practices of the Eastern Bloc, Cuban posters of the early 1960s mobilized the aesthetics of Socia…

Existing scholarship on the Brazilian 1960s has prioritized the participatory art of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, emphasizing their transcendence of the discrete and static art object as the epitome of Brazilian modernism. What is less recognized is the role figurative artist…

This thesis examines changes in gender attitudes between the years 1962 and 1967 as seen through the activities of a group of female volunteers at a regional community center, specifically the Fine Arts committee of the Arts Council at the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Associat…