Andrew Lambirth

Agitprop, love trucks and leaflet bombs: the art of protest

The V&A's Disobedient Objects. Plus: an exhibition in Suffolk dedicated to the map-mad younger brother of Eric Gill

‘I wish my boyfriend was as dirty as your policies’, 2011,by Coral Stoakes [as many of us as possible what repressive © victoria and albert museum, london] 
issue 30 August 2014

Titles can be misleading, and in case you have visions of microwave ovens running amok or washing machines crunching up the parquet, be reassured — or disappointed. Disobedient Objects, the new free display in the V&A’s Porter Gallery, is about objects as tools of social change. It’s a highly politicised exhibition and contains a great deal of fascinating material, from films to how-to guides (not quite ‘how to make a bomb’, but nearly).

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