Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters
This digital database currently contains 750 images and corresponding descriptions of posters from Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and the United States. It represents a significant selection of the collection of approximately 10,000 post-1960s Latin American and Spanish political posters housed in the UNM Libraries Center for Southwest Research.
The collection is named after Sam L. Slick, a collector, scholar, and former Spanish professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, from whom it was acquired in 2001. Russ Davidson, former Curator of Latin American and Iberian Collections, facilitated the acquisition, while Center for Regional Studies post-doctoral fellow Teresa Eckmann has been responsible for cataloging and photographing the collection.
The Slick Collection, unparalleled in scope internationally, includes works of varying scale printed by serigraphy or offset lithography techniques by such widely known artists as Félix Beltrán, Raúl Martínez, Renú Mederos Pazos, Alfredo Rostgaard, and Eduardo Muñoz Bachs of Cuba; Jesús Ruiz Durand of Peru; and Josú Rosa Castellanos, Antonio Martorell, Rafael Tufiño, and Lorenzo Homar of Puerto Rico. All Latin American countries, as well as Spain and the United States, are represented in the posters, which address such themes as imperialism, solidarity, human rights, and revolution. Currently in the beginning stages of development, the digital collection will continue to be refined and amplified. In the spring semester of 2006, 500 additional images will be added, including posters from Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru.
These digital images are made available to the viewer for personal research use only. For information on permission to publish contact the Center for Southwest Research at (505) 277-7688. Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of New Mexico. http://www.unm.edu/disclaimer.html
This project is generously funded by Dr. Tobias Durán of the Center for Regional Studies, University of New Mexico.