"Tart cards" and newspaper cuttings pasted on red hearts. Collage by Tom Cook, 1994.

  • Cook, Tom, 1937-2016.
Date:
[1994]
Reference:
2155761i
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Description

Sex worker cards (prostitutes' advertising cards placed in telephone boxes in the street) on various themes mixed in a collage with contemporary newspaper articles and headlines on related themes, pasted down on heart-shaped mounts of red painted cardboard

Publication/Creation

[1994]

Physical description

8 collages : newsprint and cards laid down on painted cardboard ; cardboard 60.5 x 35.3 cm

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Notes

Part of a wall-mounted installation containing also six more elaborate, framed, rectangular collages using the same principles (Wellcome Library nos. 2148890i--2148895i)

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 2155761i

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  • no. 1

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    Closed stores

  • no. 2

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  • no. 3

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    Closed stores

  • no. 4

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    Closed stores

  • no. 5

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    Closed stores

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