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to Docs Populi
dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century
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Books
Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art, Chronicle Books, 2003 (author)
Visions of Peace & Justice: 30 years of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press, 2007 (editor)
Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Chronicle Books, 2007 (co-author)
Art/Works - American Labor Posters, Cornell University Press, expected 2009 (co-author)
Recent presentations
Solo exhibit of posters, University of San Francisco Law School, 3/2008-7/2008
Art Works: The Ray Smith Symposium ; The Role of the Arts in U.S. Workers' Struggles, Syracuse University,
April 22-24
"Cuban Poster Art and the Spirit of Revolution," University of Oregon (Eugene) May 1, 3:30PM.
Upcoming presentations
Author presentations on Chinese Posters:
Sunday June 1, Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA), 2:00
Saturday, June 21, Barnes & Noble (San Francisco, Taylor Street store) 3:00
Saturday, June 28 Eastwind Books (Berkeley)
3:30
"Database of American Labor Posters," Society of American Archivists, Labor Archives Roundtable, Wednesday August 27, 1PM.
Web articles
Circa 1920 religious posters found in wall of my home
Poster of the British slave ship Brookes, 1789
Interview with Lincoln Cushing about political posters in PLAZM magazine
"A librarian champions political poster art," Library Journal Academic Newswire, 5/31/2007
"Red all over", article in AIGA Voice on U.S.-China-Cuba graphics
Bancroftiana article on 1930s UC antiwar images and archives (pdf)
Unprocessed social movement collections at UC Berkeley
A brief history of the "clenched fist" image
H.K. Yuen Archive of San Francisco Bay Area Social Movement History
Origins of the Black Panther Party logo
1970 UC Berkeley antiwar poster workshop archive
Latin American poster collections at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
Recent books on political poster art
Stop the Olympic Prison
poster, 1980 Winter Olympics
Many of the images in these archives are available as high-resolution files; see "Image use agreement and fee structure"
all material © 2008 Lincoln Cushing Docs Populi - Documents for the Public