If you want to increase weight, enter the cooperative
Poster
1989 (published)
1989 (published)
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Poster depicting two pigs on a see-saw. One is large, pink and healthy and the other is small, grey and weak. The text roughly translates as 'If you want to increase weight, enter the cooperative', and 'The sow beats all the records, but who made her grow? Commitment!'.
Object details
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| Title | If you want to increase weight, enter the cooperative |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by the Battling Pencil group from a portfolio of 24 entitled 'Perestroika For and Against'. Russia, 1989. |
| Physical description | Poster depicting two pigs on a see-saw. One is large, pink and healthy and the other is small, grey and weak. The text roughly translates as 'If you want to increase weight, enter the cooperative', and 'The sow beats all the records, but who made her grow? Commitment!'. |
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| Credit line | Given by Peggy Vance |
| Production | Attribution note: published in a print run of 5,000 |
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| Accession number | E.382-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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