Pump Up The Volume
Print
1987 (manufactured)
1987 (manufactured)
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Offset lithograph poster advertising the single Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S. A simple text-based design in black, white and red.
Object details
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| Title | Pump Up The Volume |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithography |
| Brief description | Offset lithograph poster advertising the single 'Pump Up The Volume' by M/A/R/R/S. A simple text-based design in black, white and red. 4AD. Great Britain. 1987. |
| Physical description | Offset lithograph poster advertising the single Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S. A simple text-based design in black, white and red. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | PUMP / UP THE / VOLUME / M|A|R|R|S / AA (Design.) |
| Object history | This poster presents a deliberately objective, faceless promotion of a unique, collaborative single. Pump Up the Volume was an aural collage of musical samples taken from some 30 recordings laid upon an existing piece by 4AD artists Colourbox and A. R. Kane. Its tremendous popularity (it topped the 12-inch single sales chart for 1987), resulted in the anonymity of its original, ‘white label’ aspect being replaced by the more distinctive though still non-human, typographical ‘persona’ seen here. |
| Bibliographic reference | Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. |
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| Accession number | E.356-1989 |
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| Record created | December 9, 2008 |
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