Object number:
2010.54.1586
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Weapons of Mere Destruction
Maker:
John Yates
Date made:
2003; 2003
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17 in, W: 11 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Undetermined
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a thin black border overall. Poster has a photograph of three surface to air missiles overall. The poster reads from top to bottom: "Your Method Of Definition Is Madness! / Weapons Of / Mere Destruction / There is No Purity In Our Mutations / Simply Because It Is We Who Deploy Them / You Hide Within The Semantics Of Deceit!". [This was one of a 12-poster set produced as a collaborative project between two magazines, Clamor and Faesthetic. -LMC]
Concepts:
missile; war; peace
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