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(Partner Event) Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar

(Partner Event) Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar

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March 13 September 7 EDT

Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and costume and theatrical set designer. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, few equal his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America. This exhibition focuses on his poster output over a thirty year period during which time his work reflected the complex history of Puerto Rico, encompassing elements of Taíno, Spanish, and African cultures as well as the rising tensions between tradition and modernity under the Luis Muñoz Marín government. His influence is so extensive that today he is known as the father of the Puerto Rican poster. Alejandro Anreus is Emeritus Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies, William Paterson University. A former curator at the Jersey City Museum and Montclair Art Museum, he is the author of over sixty articles and catalogue essays, and six books on Latin American and Latinx Art.

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March 13
End:
September 7
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https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/puerto-rico-in-print-the-posters-of-lorenzo-homar/

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Poster House
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