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Sam
L. Slick Collection of Latin American & Iberian Posters: Developments
In April 2001, the Library
acquired the International Archive of Latin American Political Posters,
a major repository containing more than 10,000 images from Spain and Latin
America, the great majority produced between the mid-1960s and the late
1990s, with a smaller number from earlier decades. Renamed the Sam L. Slick
Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, after its originator and
long-time owner, the collection constitutes a unique visual and iconographic
resource that helps document Latin American politics and social reality
during a time of intense conflict and upheaval. Numerous overlapping themes
can be studied in and through these posters, eg., political mobilization
and mass communication, the growth of opposition to dictatorship and authoritarianism,
the reemergence of democratic regimes, the movement for women's and indigenous
rights, the "Americanization " of political advertising in Latin America,
the promotion of human rights, literacy, public health, and environmental
protection, and the trajectory of "revolutionary" art and poster design
in contemporary Latin America and Spain.
Geographic Scope
of the Collection: Listed below, in alphabetical order, are the countries
contained in the collection (along with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico),
followed by an approximate numerical count.
Argentina.............525
Bolivia...............452
Brazil................487
Chile.................240
Colombia..............384
Costa Rica............393
Cuba..................570
Dominican Republic....541
Ecuador...............332
El Salvador...........381
Guatemala.............398
Haiti..................54
Honduras..............258
Mexico..............1,525
Nicaragua.............264
Panama................304
Paraguay..............103
Peru..................208
Puerto Rico............89
Spain...............1,796
Uruguay...............130
Venezuela.............485
U.S. Hispanic.........267
Organization and Use of the Slick Collection: In Fall 2001, the Library
began a long-term project to catalog the posters, with the eventual goal
of mounting the database of catalogued records on the Web, linked to a digital
archive of selected images. To date, more than 1,890 records have been created
and entered, and 592 posters digitized. The database and images are not
yet accessible to the public. Although the current emphasis is on processing,
the collection is open for use by students and faculty with a demonstrated
need.
Related Activities:
The Library is collaborating with the National Hispanic Cultural Center
on a major exhibition of Latin American political posters. The majority
of images to be exhibited will come from the Slick Collection. Scheduled
to open in Fall 2004, the exhibition will be accompanied by an international
symposium, a website, and a scholarly catalog. It will also travel to other
sites.
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