Mine's Bigger Than Yours!
Poster
1983 (made)
1983 (made)
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This satire takes a feminist perspective and plays on the conception of war as a typically masculine pursuit. It ridicules the nuclear arms race as a phallic competition between the USA and USSR. During the 1980s the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was at the centre of a protest against the deployment of American cruise missiles in Britain. The camp created a wealth of visual protest and probably inspired this poster, which combines feminist and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) symbols.
Object details
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| Title | Mine's Bigger Than Yours! (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph |
| Brief description | 'Mine's Bigger Than Yours!' anti-nuclear protest poster by Christine Larter, UK, 1983 |
| Physical description | Black and white image of two space rockets launching parallel to one another. The rocket on the left bears a small 'stars and stripes' emblem of the United States flag and the rocket on the right bears the 'hammer and sicle' of Russia. In between the two structures is a small symbol which combines the 'peace sign' and the sign for the female gender. The rockets leave beneath them a cloud of white smoke in which is printed 'Mine's Bigger Than Yours!' |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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| Summary | This satire takes a feminist perspective and plays on the conception of war as a typically masculine pursuit. It ridicules the nuclear arms race as a phallic competition between the USA and USSR. During the 1980s the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was at the centre of a protest against the deployment of American cruise missiles in Britain. The camp created a wealth of visual protest and probably inspired this poster, which combines feminist and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) symbols. |
| Other number | LS.1349 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.1512-2004 |
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| Record created | June 10, 2004 |
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