Grow Your Own Food
Poster
1942 (made)
1942 (made)
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Abram Games championed the use of modern war poster designs. He took an unpatronising view of his audience, arguing that people were fully capable of working out a modern design whatever their experience of art. This surrealist image works by inviting the viewer to take the place laid at the table, and encouraging the link between eating and cultivation. The government's 'Dig for Victory' campaign aimed at raising Britain's self-sufficiency at a time when many merchant ships were being sunk.
Object details
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| Title | Grow Your Own Food (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Second World War poster issued by the War Office, UK 1942 (A. Games) |
| Physical description | Poster showing a table whose legs are formed by a white spade and fork. A red knife and fork extend from two corners of the table top. Under the table are newly planted rows of sprouting plants in the soil. The table is set with a plate of food, a mug of tea and an army cap. |
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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 | Abram Games championed the use of modern war poster designs. He took an unpatronising view of his audience, arguing that people were fully capable of working out a modern design whatever their experience of art. This surrealist image works by inviting the viewer to take the place laid at the table, and encouraging the link between eating and cultivation. The government's 'Dig for Victory' campaign aimed at raising Britain's self-sufficiency at a time when many merchant ships were being sunk. |
| Associated object | CIRC.296-1971 (Duplicate) |
| Other number | LS.2047 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1025-2004 |
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| Record created | June 23, 2004 |
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