Richard Hamilton

Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original member of the legendary Independent Group in London in the 1950s, Hamilton organized or participated in groundbreaking exhibitions associated with the group--in particular This Is Tomorrow (1956), for which his celebrated collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, crystallizing the postwar world of consumer capitalism, was made. With his colleagues in the Independent Group, Hamilton promoted the artistic investigation of popular culture, undertaking this analysis in paintings, prints, and texts, thus setting the stage for Pop art--indeed, he is often called the intellectual father of Pop. At the same time, Hamilton was crucial to the postwar reception of Marcel Duchamp, transcribing his notes for The Large Glass and producing a reconstruction of this epochal piece for the first Duchamp retrospective in Britain, in 1966. Over the years Hamilton has continued to develop his work, in a variety of media, on subjects ranging from the Rolling Stones to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from new commodities and technologies to the oldest genres in Western painting. True to the mission of the October Files series, this volume collects the most telling essays on Hamilton (including several hard-to-find texts by the artist), spanning the entire range of his extraordinary career.

ISBN 0262513722   Pages 176 ISBN13 9780262513722 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 340 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Imprint MIT Press   Series title October Files Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 02 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 709.2   Spine width (mm) 7 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Richard Hamilton in Conversation with Michael Craig-Martin (1990) by Michael Craig-Martin		1
		The Pleasures and Sorrows of Modernity: Vision, Space, and the Social Body in Richard Hamilton (1992) by David Mellor		15
		The Vortex of Gracious Living (2007) by Greil Marcus		39
		Notes on the First Pop Age (2003) by Hal Foster		45
		Urbane Image (1962-1982) by Richard Hamilton		65
		Exteriors/Landscapes (1990) by Stephen Bann		75
		An Inside View (1990) by Richard Hamilton		87
		Richard Hamilton: Grand New Artificer (1988) by Mark Francis		99
		"A Liquid Elemental Scattering": Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton (1992) by Sarat Maharaj		111
		Products (2003) by Richard Hamilton		131
		concept by Richard Hamilton		137
		Citizen Hamilton (2008) by Hal Foster		145
		Index of Names		161

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