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Poster

1982 (designed), ca.1982 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Piech, Paul Peter (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (designed)

Lino-cut print poster protesting against nuclear weapons, with an image of a figure crucified upon, and nailed with, Soviet and U.S. missiles. The design printed in red against a black ground.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Politics
Posters
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Lino-cut print
Linoleum-Block Printing
Brief description
Lino-cut print poster protesting against nuclear weapons, with an image of a figure crucified upon, and nailed with, Soviet and U.S. missiles. By Paul Peter Piech, Great Britain, 1982.
Physical description
Lino-cut print poster protesting against nuclear weapons, with an image of a figure crucified upon, and nailed with, Soviet and U.S. missiles. The design printed in red against a black ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 85.6cm
  • Width: 65.7cm
Measurements taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions
'U.S.A. USSR' (Lettered on the missiles)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Object history
E.771-1986 is another impression of this design, but in a different colourway and with the black re-cut in some places.
Subjects depicted
Figure
Crucifixion
Missiles
Nuclear Weapons
Missiles
Associated object
E.772-1986 (Colourway)
Bibliographic reference
Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number
30/G9 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.771-1986

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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