Printed Ephemera — 2011
Poster
This poster features the lines, 'If a man has an apartment stacked with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend they are role models.' The poster was designed by the artist Stanley Donwood and distributed to Occupy London activists. Donwood saw the words on a poster at another Occupy protest in Sheffield. The poster could be downloaded and blown up to be pasted onto walls.
The Occupy London movement grew out of an attempt to occupy the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square on 15 October 2011. The protesters set up camps at St Paul's Cathedral, Finsbury Square and the 'Bank of Ideas' in a disused building owned by the United Bank of Switzerland on Sun Street in Hackney.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 2012.21/5
- Object name:
- poster
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Donwood, Stanley
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- Production date:
- 2011
- Material:
paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 640 mm, W 455 mm
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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- Creative commons usage:
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- License this image:
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