Man's Greatest Erections?
Poster
1983 (made)
1983 (made)
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This satire takes a feminist perspective and plays on the conception of war as a typically masculine pursuit. It ridicules the nuclear arms race as a phallic competition between the USA and USSR. During the 1980s the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was at the centre of a protest against the deployment of American cruise missiles in Britain. The camp created a wealth of visual protest and probably inspired this poster, which combines feminist and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) symbols.
Object details
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| Title | Man's Greatest Erections? (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Man's Greatest Erections? Feminist and anti-nuclear propaganda poster. UK, ca. 1983. |
| Physical description | Anti-nuclear power poster depicting missile as phallic symbol |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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| Summary | This satire takes a feminist perspective and plays on the conception of war as a typically masculine pursuit. It ridicules the nuclear arms race as a phallic competition between the USA and USSR. During the 1980s the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was at the centre of a protest against the deployment of American cruise missiles in Britain. The camp created a wealth of visual protest and probably inspired this poster, which combines feminist and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) symbols. |
| Other number | LS.1350 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.1513-2004 |
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| Record created | July 5, 2004 |
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