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Stop police repression of clowns and street performers

Poster
1976 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Postrait poster campaigning to stop police repression of clowns and street performers. The poster features an exaggerated illustration of a policeman eth bulging yellow eyes and jagged metal teeth, squeezing the nose of a clown, who is clenching his jaw in pain.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleStop police repression of clowns and street performers (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Photostencil, printing, paper, plastic laminate
Brief description
Poster, designed and printed by John Phillips for the Paddington Printshop, London, 1976.
Physical description
Postrait poster campaigning to stop police repression of clowns and street performers. The poster features an exaggerated illustration of a policeman eth bulging yellow eyes and jagged metal teeth, squeezing the nose of a clown, who is clenching his jaw in pain.
Dimensions
  • Height: 79cm
  • Width: 53.6cm
Dimensions include plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions
  • STOP POLICE REPRESSION OF CLOWNS AND STREET PERFORMERS (Poster headline)
  • Capitalism represses / the desire to love. the / desire to live, laugh and / accept love given freely / Daniel Rovai, Clown, was arrested and / brutally beaten up by the police on Feb.21 '76 / his crime - miming and juggling to a Portobello crowd (In bottom left hand corner of poster.)
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop.
Object history
Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Bibliographic reference
From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?'
Collection
Accession number
E.578-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
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