Your Country Needs You
England: Crass Records, ca. 1981. Item #5315
Offset. 24 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. Near fine with slight wear at corners.
Poster released with the uncensored 1981 reissue of Crass’ The Feeding Of The Five Thousand. Riffing on the "Your Country Needs YOU" British World War I recruitment poster, the image is of a burned hand caught in barbed wire rather than of an authoritative man pointing at the viewer. An example of how Crass’s militant aesthetics, appropriating a well-known slogan of state propaganda to reveal the reality of state violence.
Price: $250.00
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