Blue Monday

“Blue Monday by Rik Lander (1960-, UK) and Peter Boyd Maclean (1960-, UK), known collectively as the Duvet Brothers, juxtaposes images of affluence, privilege and prosperity (for example, men in top hats, school boys attending Eton, a man lighting a cigar with a five-pound note, the Royal family etc.) against images of fascism (Oswald Mosley and the black-shirts’, police fighting with protesters at a political demonstration, and so forth). This is followed by by a full-screen text graphic ‘Rich Get Richer … …

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