"If you dont believe In lead youre already dead", King Mob No 2 1/2

Item data

Title

"If you dont believe In lead youre already dead", King Mob No 2 1/2

Collection

Berg Collection Counterculture posters

Names

King Mob (Political group) (Publisher)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1968 - 1969 (Approximate)
Place: London
Publisher: King Mob

Library Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll +++ King Mob I49 1968

Subjects

Anarchism -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Communist aesthetics -- Controversial literature
Counterculture -- Great Britain -- Polemical works.
Marxism and culture -- Controversial literature
Marxism -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Political activists -- Great Britain
Broadsides -- Great Britain -- 20th century

Genres

Posters

Notes

Biographical/Historical: King Mob was an anarcho-Marxist group that published an avant-garde periodical by the same name. King Mob emerged out of to the Situationist movement and was likewise shaped by Europe’s literary and artistic avant-gardes. Situationism originated in France, in 1957. Its goal was to undermine and overthrow social conventions, governments, and conditioned human consciousness through art, a reconfiguring of urban space, literature, sexual freedom, and mind-expanding drugs. They derived their name from Christopher Hibbert's 1958 book on the Gordon Riots of June 1780, in which rioters daubed the slogan ‘His Majesty King Mob,’ on the walls of Newgate prison, after gutting the building. King Mob appreciated pop culture and distributed their ideas and political ideas through various posters and through their publication King Mob Echo, which provoked reaction by celebrating killers like Jack the Ripper, Mary Bell, and John Christie. One flyer in particular celebrated Valerie Solanas' 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol and included a hit-list of: Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Richard Hamilton, Mario Amaya (who was also shot by Solanas), David Hockney, Mary Quant, Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull, and IT editor Barry Miles. The King Mob group allegedly planned a series of audacious actions, including blowing up a waterfall in England’s Lake District, painting the poet Wordsworth's house with the words ‘Coleridge Lives,’ and hanging peacocks in London’s Holland Park.From Wikipedia.
Acquisition: Purchase ; Maggs ; 10/31/68 ; 009570

Physical Description

Extent: 1 poster : col. ill. ; 76 x 57 cm

Abstract

Text and drawing silkscreened in black and red on white paper, showing bearded figure, flanked by three six-guns, jumping through a hoop and kicking the sole of his right boot toward the viewer.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 965752485
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21132073
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 17.12.069
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8d0b4610-60f3-0135-c4e2-6be2773ba7e9

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Type Of Resource

Still Image
Text

Date Issued

1968

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