‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The visual legacy of punk and post-punk

So This Is Real Life, curated by Philip Hoare, presents the DIY designs of the 1970s and 1980s, from bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau. The show is at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, until 9 May. The cover of Buzzcocks' Orgasm Addict, designed by Malcolm Garrett from a photomontage by Linder, became one of the era's most memorable images; Linder said, 'I took the female form from both, and made these peculiar jigsaws highlighting these various cultural monstrosities.' David King's Anti-Nazi League poster, created for a 30 April 1978 march that drew 80,000 people, shows how graphics were mobilised for politics, the protest ending in a concert secretly headlined by the Clash with Joe Strummer wearing a Red Army Faction machine-gun T-shirt.

Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule and venues such as Plan K helped bind British post-punk to continental art.

United Kingdom, Southampton

john hansard, philip hoare, punk, post-punk, buzzcocks, orgasm addict, malcolm garrett, linder, anti-nazi, david king