How Does it Feel (to be the mother of a thousand dead)?
Vinyl Record
1982 (made)
1982 (made)
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Crass 'How Does it Feel (to be the mother of a thousand dead)?' single; Vinyl record, white cardboard sleeve (with lyrics on one side) and a predominantly black fold-out paper record cover (one side a large photograph with the text 'Welcome Home').
Object details
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| Title | How Does it Feel (to be the mother of a thousand dead)? (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | polyvinyl chloride, and lithograph print on paper; print on cardboard |
| Brief description | Crass 'How Does it Feel (to be the mother of a thousand dead)?' single; Vinyl record, white cardboard sleeve (with lyrics on one side) and a predominantly black fold-out paper record cover; Designed by Gee Vaucher; England; 1982. |
| Physical description | Crass 'How Does it Feel (to be the mother of a thousand dead)?' single; Vinyl record, white cardboard sleeve (with lyrics on one side) and a predominantly black fold-out paper record cover (one side a large photograph with the text 'Welcome Home'). |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by Gee Vaucher |
| Object history | The title is taken from a passage from 'If The War Goes On' by Herman Hesse, 1919. The music addresses the issue of mass slaughter through war, relating specifically to the Falklands War in 1982. The wrapper carries texts on war and unfolds to a poster and bears an image of a wounded soldier being greeted by his wife and child. |
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| Literary reference | Hesse, Herman. <u>If The War Goes On</u>, 1919. |
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| Accession number | E.3277-1991 |
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| Record created | March 4, 2009 |
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