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The Hilliard Ensemble

Poster
1988 (made)
Artist/Maker
Arts Council of Great Britain (publisher)
Linney, Bob (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Poster advertising concerts by The Hilliard Ensemble as part of the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network tours. Lettered with names of musicians, details of venue, ticket prices etc.

Object details

Categories
Printed Pages & Sheets
Advertising
Posters
Music
Object type
Poster
TitleThe Hilliard Ensemble (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithography
Printing Ink
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Poster advertising concerts by The Hilliard Ensemble as part of the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network tours, colour offset lithograph, design by Bob Linney, published by the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1988
Physical description
Poster advertising concerts by The Hilliard Ensemble as part of the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network tours. Lettered with names of musicians, details of venue, ticket prices etc.
Dimensions
  • Height: 64.7cm
  • Width: 45.5cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered with names of musicians, details of venue, ticket prices etc.
Gallery label
(20/02/1991 - 23/06/1991)
Six posters advertising Arts Council-Contemporary Music Network concerts.

Pianists Roger Woodward and Cecil Taylor (b.1933), 1989
The Michael Nyman Band
Metanoia, 1988
The Hilliard Ensemble, 1988
London Brass, 1988
The Jazz Warriors, 1988
Designed by Bob Linney, (b.1947)
Colour offset lithographs
E.3048.3050,3051,3053,3056-1990
Given by Bob Linney

These posters are the result of several distinct stages. Initially, pen 'roughs' were drawn on plain paper and submitted for approval. When one was chosen, it was enlarged and coloured using a silk-screen and stencils allowing Linney to lay down by hand, semi-opaque inks to produce gently blended hues. From several of these uniquely coloured screenprints, one was selected as the 'camera-ready' artwork. The dense colour seen at the screenprint stage was preserved at the final stage of printing by the omission of the criss-cross glass screens normally used in photo-lithography to break the image up into the fine dots visible in any mass-produced poster. Linney has recently applied the same approach to the design of record sleeves for the groups The Beloved and UB 40.
Credit line
Given by Bob Linney
Production
1988
Subject depicted
Music
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. p.62.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3053-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
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