Object number:
2010.54.9505
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
got democracy?
Date made:
Circa 2004
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17.5 in, W: 12.875 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a United States flag as the background with a black bar across the bottom with white text. In the center is a shadow of a prisoner at Abu Ghraib wearing a hood and a blanket and standing on a box. Below is "got democracy?" in white. [This message is a sarcastic application of the popular slogan "Got milk?", an advertising campaign for the California Milk Processor Board encouraging the consumption of cow's milk which began in 1993. -LMC]
Concepts:
torture; flag; parody; democracy; stars and stripes
Places:
Iraq
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