The Past, Present and Future of the Political Poster

Lincoln Cushing has spent the better part of his career making and preserving historic posters. Cushing has published three books about poster art; Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art and Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Much of his renowned archival work was done with a collection of Cuban political posters from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Iggy Pop: "Our Gods Are Assholes"

Iggy faxed in this correspondence after an interview with Joshua Berger in 1995. The interview follows, with an illustration by Joe Sorren. We printed the rant exactly as it arrived in the pages of Plazm #5.
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