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Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton

Modern Moral Matters

by Michael Bracewell and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/02/2010

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With his memorably titled 1956 collage Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness. But unlike so many Pop artists, Hamilton was never an uncritical or ambivalent advocate of postwar society, and he has often agitated directly against it, producing a great deal of openly political, satirical work that assaults both consumer culture at large and more immediate political events. This monograph, published for Hamilton's 2010 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London (his first exhibition since 1992), brings together Hamilton's famous protest paintings as well as newer political works and features essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Michael Bracewell.
ISBN:
9783865607515
9783865607515
Category:
Art & design styles: Pop art
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-02-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag
Country of origin:
Germany
Pages:
96
Dimensions (mm):
255x220x8mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Michael Bracewell

Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels and two works of non-fiction, including the much acclaimed England Is Mine. His writing has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Fashion Writing and The Faber Book of Pop, and he has written catalogue texts for many contemporary artists, including Richard Wentworth, Jim Lambie and Gilbert & George. He was the co-curator of 'The Secret Public: The Last Days of The British Underground, 1977-1988', at Kunstverein Munchen in 2006, and was a Turner Prize judge in 2007.

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