Education and discipline. Collage by Tom Cook, 1994.
- Cook, Tom, 1937-2016.
- Date:
- [1994]
- Reference:
- 2148894i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Sex worker cards (prostitutes' advertising cards placed in telephone boxes in the street) on the theme of education and discipline mixed in a collage with contemporary newspaper articles and headlines on the same theme, with matching frame adorned with school equipment
Publication/Creation
[1994]
Physical description
1 collage : newsprint and cards laid down on a blackboard in integral frame ; frame 66 x 71 cm
Contributors
Lettering
The telephone number along the bottom of the frame was the number of 10 Downing Street
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 2148894i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores