Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Richard Hamilton obituary

In 1956 Richard Hamilton, who has died aged 89, attracted attention with his collaged poster image for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery in London. It was quite shocking: a naked woman on a sofa and a bodybuilding he-man holding an oversized lollipop labelled "Pop" in a prominent position, lots of domestic gadgets including a TV, the cover of a comic presented as a framed painting, an all-too-urban scene through the landscape window, the ceiling covered with a space-age photo of Earth.

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