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Poster

1968 (made)
Artist/Maker
Sprague, Ken (designer and maker)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Preface to a folio of prints, screenprint inscribed in pencil 'Artist proofs Ken 68'.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Screenprint
Brief description
Preface to a folio of seven prints, screenprint by Ken Sprague, Great Britain, 1968
Physical description
Preface to a folio of prints, screenprint inscribed in pencil 'Artist proofs Ken 68'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 672mm
  • Width: 489mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Artist proofs Ken 68' (Inscribed in pencil.)
  • These prints will inevitably be called Anti-Soviet- / they are not - they are Anti-Tank - against those men / who all too quickly rush in to solve the problems of our / Nuclear world by military action. / There's a print about Big Brotherism and one about the / heroism of youth. Another on the end of an era and a rise / of protest symbolised by the clenched fist of the Spanish / Civil War and the demonstrations of the 30's. / One of a ghastly womb that gives birth to a tank - to give / birth to a tank... / There's one that says discussion is best when conducted between / equals and another about those blinkered enthusiasts who / see only the glorious young soldier (in traditional War / Memorial pose) but do not see the tank or the monstrous / process of soldiering! / For people who find only references to Czechoslovakia in / these pictures theres the three teardrops who conveniently / forgetting Munich and the more recent armed adventures / of their own governments, see only in one direction. / These silk screen prints are, admittedly, simplified / statements about complex policies. But somewhere in / that complexity lies truth. It might help us locate / it if we began by putting military ideas in the dustbin! / Ken Sprague. September 1968. (Text of poster)
Credit line
Given by John Green
Subject depicted
War
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.726-2003

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Record createdJune 13, 2005
Record URL
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