Description: Vagina Rex And The Gas Oven (Jane Arden) Advertising Poster By Alan Aldridge. Very good condition. Extremely rare and very collectable. Jane Arden was a ground-breaking figure in feminist theatre whose play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven was the first play to emerge from the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain and remains a radical, innovative, dark, witty and challenging piece. Born in Pontypool as Norah Patricia Morris, Arden trained at RADA as an actress and in 1947 married Philip Saville an up-and-coming TV director of television in the heady days of the 1960s when Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play were at their height. He had directed Arden’s plays Dear Little Liz and Conscience and Desire at the New Lindsay Theatre Club in 1954 and later became known as the director of the acclaimed Boys from the Blackstuff. Alan Aldridge’s colourful, surreal, and psychedelic graphic style presents a lasting image of the 1960s and 1970s. The graphic designer, who worked on everything from album artwork and illustrated hardbacks for The Who and The Beatles, through to Penguin’s science fiction book covers, has died aged 73, and leaves behind him an influential legacy on 20th century pop culture.Once dubbed by Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic, “part Aubrey Beardsley, part rock star”, Aldridge’s design style was as decadent, outrageous and revolutionary as his 19th century equivalents, illustrator Beardsley and writer Oscar Wilde.Aldridge had no formal training in art or design. Born in east London in 1943, he left school at 14, and before landing a break at Penguin Books, pursued a number of odd-body jobs including insurance clerk, barrow boy at Stratford market and cargo unloader at London docks.Please request (within reason) more photos if required. International Shipping Available Through the Ebay Global Shipping Program. Shipped in the UK by Royal Mail Special Delivery. Next day. Signature required. £750 insurance cover. I ship within two days of payment being received. Please do not make offers by messaging me. These will be ignored. Please use the Ebay Offer or Buy it Now function. Thanks.
Price: 400 GBP
Location: Barrow in Furness
End Time: 2024-12-15T21:41:40.000Z
Shipping Cost: 53.79 GBP
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Artist: Alan Aldridge
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Image Orientation: Portrait
Signed: No
Size: Large
Title: 'Vagina Rex And The Gas Oven'
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Framing: Unframed
Region of Origin: UK
Colour: Black/Grey/White
Type: Print
Item Height: 76 cm
Style: Contemporary Art, Experimental, Expressionism, Fantasy, Hyperrealism, Modernism, Pop Art
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Unit Quantity: 1
Item Width: 51 cm
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
Personalise: No
