God Save the Ready Made

After 60 years with seemingly no existence of Dada the Punk movement was started in London, the anti-establishment, anti-art ethos of Dada was mirrored when the Sex Pistols, supposedly created by his highness, egomaniac Malcolm McLaren, were violently shoved into the public eye. The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band from London and started in 1975, they had a stripped back, basic rock ‘n’ roll style and most of them could hardly play but that was the whole point. The artwork that accompanied the music, to me, was equally as revolutionary and important in the Sex Pistols effect on popular culture. Jamie Reid took the idea of Dada and ran with it creating some of the most iconic images in history. And so the Punk movement had begun.