Control
Poster
c. 1980s (made)
c. 1980s (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Black and white offset lithograph poster depicting photographs of an ear, eye, and mouth with the captions: Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing. The final image depicts a person with a split cabbage for a head. A text at the bottom reads: 'CONTROL- restrain, regulate, authority, means taken to validate experimental results. UNIT- a group of things or persons forming a whole, quantity, or dimension as a standard of measurement.
wormwood scrubs and wakefield prisons have control units. prisoners in these units are subjects to six months total sensory deprivation. results from experiments on prisoners will be adopted as standard measurements with which the authorities will be able to restrain and regulate the group of things or persons forming the whole of society. THEY MUST BE STOPPED.'
wormwood scrubs and wakefield prisons have control units. prisoners in these units are subjects to six months total sensory deprivation. results from experiments on prisoners will be adopted as standard measurements with which the authorities will be able to restrain and regulate the group of things or persons forming the whole of society. THEY MUST BE STOPPED.'
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Control (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | British poster on prisoner's rights, circa 1980s. |
| Physical description | Black and white offset lithograph poster depicting photographs of an ear, eye, and mouth with the captions: Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing. The final image depicts a person with a split cabbage for a head. A text at the bottom reads: 'CONTROL- restrain, regulate, authority, means taken to validate experimental results. UNIT- a group of things or persons forming a whole, quantity, or dimension as a standard of measurement. wormwood scrubs and wakefield prisons have control units. prisoners in these units are subjects to six months total sensory deprivation. results from experiments on prisoners will be adopted as standard measurements with which the authorities will be able to restrain and regulate the group of things or persons forming the whole of society. THEY MUST BE STOPPED.' |
| Credit line | Given by Martin Bailey |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.547-2021 |
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| Record created | September 29, 2021 |
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