Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
A-Z Box
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H  Ho Chi Minh
Presented by the artist 1977
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Chinese / Japanese text
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symbols and personifications
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<p>Tilson is interested in language, puzzle-making and symbols. He was one of the founding figures of British pop art in the early 1960s, and his work from the time reflected his growing political activism and critique of consumerism. The screenprints in the series <span>A-Z Box</span> often mimic the layout of radical newspapers and magazines of the period, such as <span>Black Dwarf</span> and <span>International Times</span>. They include works concerning controversial figures such as Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh and political upheavals such as the Prague Spring and the Vietnam war.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2017</em></p>
paper print screenprint
20 February 2017 – 18 March 2018
2018-03-18
20 February 2017 – 18 March 2018
2018-03-18
2017-02-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2017-02-20
Sixty Years
Collection based display
H - Ho Chi Minh
image: 540 × 490 mm
Presented by the artist 1977
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<p>Tilson is interested in language, puzzle-making and symbols. He was one of the founding figures of British pop art in the early 1960s, and his work from the time reflected his growing political activism and critique of consumerism. The screenprints in the series <i>A-Z Box</i> often mimic the layout of radical newspapers and magazines of the period, such as <i>Black Dwarf</i> and <i>International Times</i>. They include works concerning controversial figures such as Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh and political upheavals such as the Prague Spring and the Vietnam war.</p>
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abstraction Chinese / Japanese text inscriptions non-representational symbols and personifications text