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The virtual exhibit "Transnational Poster Art: Former East Germany (GDR) and Latin America, 1970-1989," by Elizabeth Schwartz and Diana T. Swartz grew out of a seminar I offered in the Department of German Studies in Spring Quarter, 1996. In this seminar, "Exhibiting GDR Culture: Politics and Practice in the Display of Literary and Historical Archives," Diana submitted as her term paper a proposal for an exhibit of East German poster art focusing on relations between the former GDR and Latin America. We decided to continue the project as a virtual exhibit, which Diana and Liz would prepare for the Germanic Collections website. The results are before you in the form of their excellent text and selection of posters.

In preparing the exhibit, Diana and Liz drew upon local resources such as library materials in the Stanford University Libraries and the poster collection of the Hoover Institution Archives. I would like to thank Elena Danielson and her staff in the Hoover Archives for their valuable guidance and services. Special thanks are also due to Nathalie Auerbach, Bibliographic Asst. for Germanic Collections in the Stanford University Libraries, for her coordination of many aspects of the project and her guidance about web matters.

By Henry E. Lowood, Curator of the Germanic Collections at Stanford University Libraries

Last modified: May 19, 2009