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Ernesto Che Guevara (1928 – 1967)

Ernesto Che Guevara (14th June, 1928 – 9th October, 1967), commonly known as CHE; he was an Argentine Marxist revolutionist. He was also a physician, an author, an intellectual, a rebel leader, and military attaché theorist. He was a major and inspirational figure of the Cuban Revolution during the 50s. His stylized visage has become a well known countercultural symbol of revolution and a global icon within the sub-culture.

With his intellectual medical student background, this allowed him to travel around Latin America and experienced the endemic poverty and isolation, and it transformed him to be more involved in politics and world revolution. Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara played a major role and performed a number of important campaigns in the new government. Additionally, he was also a creative writer and diarist. He wrote several seminal manual on guerrilla warfare and memoirs about his revolutionary journey.

Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad but he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and executed. Guevara remains to be an important historical figure after his death; and is still an inspirational figure both in specifically political contexts or youthful rebellion. Despite his life and legacy still remain a controversial issue, his visage, especially the one of his face that was created in 1968 by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, has become one of the world’s most universally merchandized and objectified images.

This Che figure includes:

- 30 cm Tall

- Museum-like representation of Che Guevara with authentic likeness

- A trademark signature one-star beret

- An imitation leather jacket

- A traditional military combat outfit with belt

- A pair of combat boots

- M2 carbine

- M1911 Pistol with a holster

- A watch and a cigar

- A classic camera with a strap

- 3 pairs of the inter-changeable posing hands

- RM-5 Original Action Body, featuring 40 points of articulation

- FS-201 figure stand



Produced and Manufactured by ENTERBAY



Retail price: US$170 + shipping

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political connotations aside (positive and negative) this looks like a really great figure. sculpt, paint, outfit, accessories, all very impressive. i was just talking to breaker about this this morning - how people venerate che (or maybe it's just his face?) without actually understanding anything about his history or the background. either way, this could easily be part of an icons shelf as much as a historic figure shelf, given he has one of the most recognizable faces in history.

love the work on the hair.
 
political connotations aside (positive and negative) this looks like a really great figure. sculpt, paint, outfit, accessories, all very impressive. i was just talking to breaker about this this morning - how people venerate che (or maybe it's just his face?) without actually understanding anything about his history or the background. either way, this could easily be part of an icons shelf as much as a historic figure shelf, given he has one of the most recognizable faces in history.

love the work on the hair.

Nail on the head... it will divide people, whenever a new figure is released of him it does. But as long as people keep it in perspective for what it is, a representation of an historical figure, then its all good.

But as you say, he has become a symbol in political and cultural life, used on everything from "radical" student T's to banners during the Arab spring... and many don't really know what he symbolises at all, but a potent symbol that can unite people takes many forms from the US flag to a Swastika.
 
Nail on the head... it will divide people, whenever a new figure is released of him it does. But as long as people keep it in perspective for what it is, a representation of an historical figure, then its all good.

But as you say, he has become a symbol in political and cultural life, used on everything from "radical" student T's to banners during the Arab spring... and many don't really know what he symbolises at all, but a potent symbol that can unite people takes many forms from the US flag to a Swastika.

yeah, you're absolutely right. he's one of those few where his face has taken on a whole new cultural significance aside from the person himself. it's really an amazing study in semiotics. being honest, when i was a student, it was always a positive symbol to me signifying counter culture and being anti-establishment. it's only a long time afterwards that i read about all the terrible things that resulted from his campaigns. as much as i understand and love certain facets of marxism (however utopian and impossible it actually is), he was simply not the "superhero" people believe him to be and that was a big disappointment. BUT the face itself still holds its own power as a symbol.

anyway, this wouldn't be out of place alongside elvis presley, michael jackson and obama figures. you know what? we need a JFK figure.
 
No, I remember 'Foxy' all too well, Freedom for Tooting!
 
Nice job on this...I don't see myself getting it, but I like the direction EB is going with their licenses and they really nailed this.
 
I was born in the year that had the first summer of love, which was also the year this guy died...
 
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