Item #CL171-135 Daddy, What Did You Do In The Nuclear War? Earthworks Poster Collective, fl. Aust.
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Daddy, What Did You Do In The Nuclear War?

1977. Colour screenprint, Earthworks logo in image centre left, 76.2 x 50.7cm. Slight scuffs and crinkles overall, minor foxing and repaired tears to margins. Linen-backed.

Another copy of this screenprint is held in the Australian War Memorial collection, with the note “This poster is a reappropriation of a British First World War recruitment poster, Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?, by Savile Lumley. Depicts a father sitting in an armchair at home…[h]is son seemingly unperturbed by the hump on his back and the stunted right arm…[w]hile his daughter – similarly unaffected by her pig-like nose and third leg – sits on his knee…”

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Item #CL171-135

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