What Does Possession Mean to You?

Victor BURGIN.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1976

Beschreibung

Large street poster printed in 1976 when 500 copies were fly-posted across Newcastle upon Tyne. Burgin uses photography here to probe the connection between the aesthetic realm of the gallery and the world outside with a work that at once mimics and manipulates the codes of commercial advertising. The poster features an appropriated image of a pampered white couple, bracketed by a question ?What does possession mean to you??, and a firm statement of fact: ?7% of our population own 84% of our wealth? Illegally flyposted on the sides of buildings in Newcastle upon Tyne, the poster constituted a direct assault on the private property rights of the city's landowners. In addition, the composition itself was a forceful critique of the culture industry's commingling of sexual and consumer desire. Burgin?s politically engaged poster provided an indictment of bourgeois consumer imagery. Colour photo-lithographic poster. Rolled, with handling creases, especially along with edges which all exhibit areas of fraying and short tears. Pinholes in corners, faint foxing throughout.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1686

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: What Does Possession Mean to You?
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1976