Earth Day 22 April
Poster
1970 (made)
1970 (made)
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The first Earth Day was called in 1970 to promote environmental activism in the USA. Robert Rauschenberg's powerful design combines a photographic catalogue of environmental abuse with the supreme symbol of the USA, the eagle.
Object details
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| Title | Earth Day 22 April (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint |
| Brief description | Earth Day 22 April. Poster by Robert Rauschenberg against destruction of planet. USA, 1970. |
| Physical description | Photomontage, American eagle, litter pollution by industrial objects. Portrait format poster. Montage of nine photographic images of environmental abuse forming backdrop to a central photographic image of the American eagle. Images on the margin printed in black and white, the eagle in brown and black. |
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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 |
| Production | Photomontage |
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| Summary | The first Earth Day was called in 1970 to promote environmental activism in the USA. Robert Rauschenberg's powerful design combines a photographic catalogue of environmental abuse with the supreme symbol of the USA, the eagle. |
| Associated object | E.3035-1991 (Duplicate) |
| Other number | LS.2510 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.146-2004 |
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| Record created | October 10, 2005 |
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