Author: Jerome Harris Spike Lee’s 1992 classic film, Malcolm X, depicts the life and impact of the radical African-American activist. The poster for the movie was designed by Art Sims, who had previously created the artwork for Mo’ Better Blues (1990) and Jungle Fever (1991), two other Spike Lee joints. Past works by Sims display...
![Poster for Spike Lee film, Malcolm X. Features a large grey X on a black background with [November] in small white letters at bottom. Includes a thin grey border.](https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/340527_dab6b7cf9658b6df_b.jpg)
Caitlin Condell discusses this Russian movie poster that utilizes themes of modernity, Constructivism, urban imagery, and the avant-garde found in The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
