Let them eat soup...
Poster
1984 (made)
1984 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Portrait poster, depicting a tiled blue and white image of the head and shoulders of a woman, repeated 70 times. A quotation from Margarat Thatcher about equality is lettered in black below, with the slogan 'Let them eat soup...' in red next to a black and white photograph of a man huddled in the street with a bowl and spoon.
Object details
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| Title | Let them eat soup... (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Poster, screenprinted from indirect photostencils, and laminated in plastic |
| Brief description | Poster made by Handprint, depicting repeating image of a woman and the slogan 'Let them eat soup...', designed and printed by B. Fletcher, 1984 |
| Physical description | Portrait poster, depicting a tiled blue and white image of the head and shoulders of a woman, repeated 70 times. A quotation from Margarat Thatcher about equality is lettered in black below, with the slogan 'Let them eat soup...' in red next to a black and white photograph of a man huddled in the street with a bowl and spoon. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '"The pursuit of equality is a mirage. / What is more practical than the pursuit of equality is the pursuit of equality of opportunity. / And opportunity means nothing unless it includes the right to be unequal." Margaret Thatcher' |
| Credit line | Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | From the label text of an exhibition held by the Greenwich Mural Workshop entitled 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-86' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.483-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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