Peter Kennard
Peter Kennard, an artist who has a portfolio
of anti-nuclear agenda driven imagery, judges the CND brief. A collation of his works taken from the TATE's collection below shows the use of photomontage to communicate a CND agenda. Wit, wordplay and irony communicated through the appropriation of imagery can be seen in Decoration 1982, the image shows a boat being blown upon in replace of a medal pendant - addressing the light and shrapnel seen as decoration; contradictory to the decoration usually associated with the obtaining of medals due to honour and achievement of war service.
"Peter Kennard is a London-based artist, recently described by The Guardian as "a living hero of pacifist photomontage". He is senior tutor in photography at the Royal College of Art and his work is in many major collections, including Tate, the V&A and the Imperial War Museum. His work has been published in numerous publications including The Guardian, The Observer, Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman, New Statesman and Time Magazine."
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