Your talk may kill your comrades
Poster
1942 (printed and published)
1942 (printed and published)
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Abram Games (1914-1996) was one of Britain's most important poster designers. Here his powerful graphic device is emphasised by his use of colour. It enacts the message that careless talk can have potentially serious consequences. Games's depiction of the death of three comrades is unusually frank. It was an emotive and effective way of driving the message home to the troops.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Your talk may kill your comrades |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades'. Colour offset lithograph poster. Designed by Abram Games. Issued by the War Office during the Second World War. Great Britain. 1942. |
| Physical description | 'Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades'. Colour offset lithograph poster. Signed. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Signed.) |
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| Summary | Abram Games (1914-1996) was one of Britain's most important poster designers. Here his powerful graphic device is emphasised by his use of colour. It enacts the message that careless talk can have potentially serious consequences. Games's depiction of the death of three comrades is unusually frank. It was an emotive and effective way of driving the message home to the troops. |
| Associated object | CIRC.297-1971 (Duplicate) |
| 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 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.310-1981 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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