GLC Peace Posters Pack
Poster
1983 (made)
1983 (made)
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Poster depicting a skeleton reading a magazine entitled 'Protect and Survive'.
Object details
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| Title | GLC Peace Posters Pack (series title) |
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| Brief description | "Have you ever wished you were better informed?". Photomontage poster by Peter Kennard for CND. UK, 1983. |
| Physical description | Poster depicting a skeleton reading a magazine entitled 'Protect and Survive'. |
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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 |
| Bibliographic reference | This poster was one of eleven small format posters issued by the Greater London Council with the series title 'GLC Peace Posters Pack’, designed by Kennard with a foreword by E.P. Thompson. The first print run of 800 packs were sent out free of charge to various anti-war and anti-nuclear groups, community groups, schools and local authorities around the UK. A report from October 1983 reveals that demand for the posters, commissioned in February of that year, had far exceeded the initial print run. With the GLC receiving about fifty requests per day, a second print run of 2000 were produced to meet popular demand.
For further information, see 'Dispatches from an Unofficial War Artist' (Aldershot, Hampshire: Lund Humphries, 2000) and 'Beyond The Campaign for a Popular Culture’: Community Art, Activism and Cultural Democracy in 1980s London', a 2017 doctoral thesis by Hazel A. Atashroo, University of Southampton. |
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| Accession number | E.1510-2004 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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