{"product_id":"armed-by-design-posters-and-publications-of-cubas-organization-of-solidarity-of-the-peoples-of-africa-asia-and-latin-america-ospaaal-paperback","title":"Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba's Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Ospaaal) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eInterference Archive\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLani Hanna\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJen Hoyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning full-color, multilingual exploration of the profound graphic and intellectual legacy of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) for internationalism, solidarity, communication, and art among movements today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmed by Design\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of the production of OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOSPAAAL developed out of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, a meeting of delegates representing national liberation movements and leftist political parties almost exclusively from the Global South. Based in Havana, OSPAAAL produced nearly five hundred posters, magazines, and books beginning in the late 1960s, with most of their work ceasing by the late 1980s. Until 2019, OSPAAAL was a political organization focused on fighting US imperialism and supporting liberation movements around the world through poster production, regularly produced publications, and a series of books featuring the writings of the intellectual leadership of these movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmed By Design\u003c\/i\u003e brings together artists and thinkers from around the world whose work has been impacted by the legacy of OSPAAAL. These contributions reflect on impacts of OSPAAAL's work on regional movements, including in the Arab world and Korea, design iconography, the evolution of tricontinentalism, our present-day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis full-color multilingual edition includes ten international contemporary political poster-makers, artists, and designers commissioned to produce OSPAAAL-inspired prints in solidarity with today's movements: Friends of Ibn Firnas (USA), Yuko Tonohira (Japan\/USA), Ganzeer (Egypt\/USA), Un Mundo Feliz (Spain), Steven Rodriguez (USA), Dignidad Rebelde, Tomie Arai (USA), Sublevarte Colectivo (Mexico), Jamaa Al-Yad (Lebanon\/Worldwide), and A3CB (Japan).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterference Archive\u003c\/b\u003e is a community-supported archive of material from social movements around the world, created with a mission to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLani Hanna \u003c\/b\u003eis a PhD Candidate in Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. Her research looks at community archives as social movement infrastructure across several rapidly changing cities. She has taken part in organizing several exhibitions at Interference Archive, including \u003ci\u003eArmed by Design\u003c\/i\u003e. Her article \u003ci\u003eTricontinental's International Solidarity: Emotion in OSPAAAL as Tactic to Catalyze Support of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Radical History Review 2020) was part of a special edition about gender and the Cuban Revolution. \u003cb\u003eJen Hoyer\u003c\/b\u003e is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in \u003ci\u003eThe Social Movement Archive\u003c\/i\u003e (Litwin Books, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eWhat Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).\u003cb\u003eJosh MacPhee\u003c\/b\u003e has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the author\/editor of multiple books including \u003ci\u003eCelebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), \u003ci\u003eAn Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels\u003c\/i\u003e (Common Notions, 2019), and \u003ci\u003eGraphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements\u003c\/i\u003e (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition, We Want Everything, was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.\u003cb\u003eVero Ordaz\u003c\/b\u003e is a collaborative focused community member. She weaves her broad life and professional experiences to help bring people together. With a background in American Studies and Labor Studies, she is a higher education administrator and active rank-and-file member of the PSC-CUNY union.\u003cb\u003eSarah Seidman \u003c\/b\u003eis an historian and curator. As the Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York, she curates the ongoing exhibition Activist New York, which explores two centuries of activist histories in New York City. She has also curated the exhibitions Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics, and co-curated PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah and King in New York, and the exhibition and catalog Armed by Design at Interference Archive. Dr. Seidman holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. She has received fellowships from the University of Rochester, New York University, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, among other places.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.84 x 6.93 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978288234797,"sku":"9781945335143","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Xnq44xyH9z9781945335143.webp?v=1775801471","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/armed-by-design-posters-and-publications-of-cubas-organization-of-solidarity-of-the-peoples-of-africa-asia-and-latin-america-ospaaal-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}