Imprisonment and confinement. Collage by Tom Cook, 1993.

  • Cook, Tom, 1937-2016.
Date:
1993
Reference:
2148892i
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About this work

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Artist's title on verso : Condemn a little more, understand a little less

Description

Sex worker cards (prostitutes' advertising cards placed in telephone boxes in the street) on the theme of imprisonment and confinement mixed in a collage with contemporary newspaper articles and placard "Child crooks to be caged" on the same theme, with frame to match

Publication/Creation

1993.

Physical description

1 collage : newsprint and cards laid down on hardboard in integral frame ; frame 117 x 54.4 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Condemn a little more, understand a little less. T. Cook 1993

Notes

One collage in an installation of six rectangular collages (Wellcome Library nos. 214889i--2148895i) and eight collages on cardboard hearts (Wellcome Library no. 2155761i)

References note

Celia Jenkins, Ruth Swirsky, David Hitchcock and Patrick Whitehouse, Pros and cons: report on unauthorised advertising by prostitutes in BT payphones, University of Westminster, March 1994, p. 22 and appendix IV (Cards as a cultural artefact)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2148892i

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