The Magic Flute Ski It depicts John Bull escaping

It depicts John Bull escaping the ‘plane crash’ of Socialist policy with the parachute of National Policy (Unity and Security)

Study for a Head 7

A vibrant design by Cor V Velsen featuring a wooden clog containing a landscape of tulip fields with a windmill in the background

while the printed text warns against ‘leading comrades from the central government to the local governments’ who have betrayed the Cultural Revolution by ‘implementing bourgeois dictatorship

following the lifting of a wartime embargo on petrol advertising

The Magic Flute Ski It depicts John Bull escapingOriginal English National Opera poster, The Magic Flute, London Coliseum, 1992 93. Poster designed by Carroll, Dempsey and Thirkell. Photography by Bert Loewenherz. A higher resolution image is available on request.