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Four More Years?
Poster
1972 (made)
1972 (made)
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This poster was issued by artists and writers united in protest against U.S. government policies under President Richard M. Nixon, who was elected in 1968. In 1972, Nixon ran for re-election, defeating the Democrat George McGovern. The Nixon campaign slogan was "Four More Years." This poster subverts the slogan, asking instead whether Americans really wanted four more years of Nixon presidency. Printed over Ron L. Haeberle's well-known and disturbing image of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the message creates a stark association between controversial American foreign policy and savage brutality. The image supplies its own answer to the leading question, implying that four more years under Nixon's administration could lead to further violence and subjugation. Later in 1972, Nixon's Watergate scandal emerged, eventually forcing the President to resign.
Object details
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| Title | Four More Years? (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by the Art Workers Coalition, using photography by Ronald Haeberle, "Four More Years?". USA, 1972. |
| Physical description | Landscape format poster. Photograph taken in Vietnam of the My Lai massacre, 1968. A sandy road, bordered by grass or reeds on both sides, stretches from foreground to some point beyond margin of image. On it lie the dead bodies of Vietnamese people including several children and babies. A caption across the top of the image reads "Four More Years?' and again across the bottom. |
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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 poster was issued by artists and writers united in protest against U.S. government policies under President Richard M. Nixon, who was elected in 1968. In 1972, Nixon ran for re-election, defeating the Democrat George McGovern. The Nixon campaign slogan was "Four More Years." This poster subverts the slogan, asking instead whether Americans really wanted four more years of Nixon presidency. Printed over Ron L. Haeberle's well-known and disturbing image of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the message creates a stark association between controversial American foreign policy and savage brutality. The image supplies its own answer to the leading question, implying that four more years under Nixon's administration could lead to further violence and subjugation. Later in 1972, Nixon's Watergate scandal emerged, eventually forcing the President to resign. |
| Associated object | E.233-1985 (Version) |
| Other number | LS.1078 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.116-2004 |
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| Record created | August 23, 2005 |
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