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Lets Kick out the Tories? Lets Kick Them In!

Poster
ca.1987 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Class War (published by)
Place of origin
Great Britain

Poster, offset lithograph monochrome in black, depicting a giant black boot kicking a Rolls-Royce car

Object details

Category
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleLets Kick out the Tories? Lets Kick Them In!
Materials and techniques
Offest lithograph
Offset Lithograph
Brief description
Poster, offset lithograph monochrome in black, depicting a giant black boot kicking a Rolls-Royce car.
Physical description
Poster, offset lithograph monochrome in black, depicting a giant black boot kicking a Rolls-Royce car
Marks and inscriptions
  • LETS KICK OUT THE TORIES?/ LETS KICK THEM IN!
  • A SERIOUS INJURY PRODUCTION
Gallery label
(01/05/2014-02/11/2014)
In the 1980s the British anarchist organisation Class War produced a tabloid with a provocative dark humour. The covers were often reproduced as posters and their style was highly influential. The image of a boot ‘kicking in’ a Rolls-Royce is a typical expression of furious opposition to the Tories, who they argued were defending an unfair class system.

A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution, V&A, Galleries 88a and 90, (1 May-2 Nov 2014)
Credit line
Given by Thayen Rich
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.247-2014

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Record createdMarch 17, 2014
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1287177/lets-kick-out-the-tories-poster-class-war/
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