A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution
© Poster by the See Red Women’s Workshop, London, 1974. Museum number: E.86-2011, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1 May 2014 - 2 November 2014
Painting, Room 88a and Prints & Drawings, Room 90
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From the ‘Votes for Women’ campaigns of the early 20th century to the recent Occupy movements, political activists around the world have used posters to mobilise, educate and organise. Making or displaying a poster is in itself a means of taking political action, while for many social and political movements posters have represented an important form of cultural output. Themes of protest and political participation have gained a powerful contemporary resonance in the wake of the Arab Spring and the global financial crisis. This display looks at a century of posters agitating for political change drawn from the V&A collection, including new acquisitions gathered from recent outbursts of protest.
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