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Vietnam Will Win

Poster
1971 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rene Mederos was sent to Vietnam in 1969 by the Cuban government's Department of Revolutionary Orientation. His was sent to paint the war-torn conditions throughout the country's provinces. The finished works were displayed in Hanoi. The images were so popular and evocative that they were translated into a series of posters available for sale. As part of the American anti-war campaign, the Glad Day Press in Ithaca, New York, published this edition whose proceeds funded much-needed medical aid in Indochina.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleVietnam Will Win (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Brief description
'Vietnam Will Win', cuban poster by Rene Mederos published in United States, 1971
Physical description
Elderly Vietnamese man dressed in white reading a book on the bank of the river. Vietnamese landscape printed in yellow, pink, blue and green.
Dimensions
  • Height: 66.1cm
  • Width: 50.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • VIET NAM / ['Shall Win' printed in 13 foreign languages] (including Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian)
  • Mederos - Cuba/71 (signed on lower margin)
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Production
published in Ithaca, New York
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Summary
Rene Mederos was sent to Vietnam in 1969 by the Cuban government's Department of Revolutionary Orientation. His was sent to paint the war-torn conditions throughout the country's provinces. The finished works were displayed in Hanoi. The images were so popular and evocative that they were translated into a series of posters available for sale. As part of the American anti-war campaign, the Glad Day Press in Ithaca, New York, published this edition whose proceeds funded much-needed medical aid in Indochina.
Bibliographic reference
¡Revolucíon! Cuban Poster Art by Lincoln Cushing. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 2003. page 17.
Other number
LS.1072 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Accession number
E.632-2004

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Record createdAugust 6, 2004
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