Richard Hamilton
John Lennon: Art, film and music (2010)
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John Lennon: Art, film and music (2010) The music legend would have turned 70 last Saturday; in tribute, John A. Walker offers a historical overview of Lennon’s history and contributions to art and film. John Lennon (1940-80) came from a lower middle-class, suburban background in Liverpool....
Art and celebrity book summary (2010)
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Art and celebrity book summary (2010) Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov (book cover image). En Plein Air, (detail) (1995). Courtesy: Vilma Gold Gallery. Book published by Pluto Press, London in 2003. Art and celebrity : Introduction Fine artists are imbricated in celebrity...
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009)
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009) A review by John A. Walker (2009), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Art historians as characters rarely appear in fictional feature films but in the American movie Mona Lisa Smile (Revolution Studios, red OM films and Columbia Pictures,...
"Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967" at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2008-09) (press release)
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...Richard Hamilton, Jeremy Deller, Steven Claydon, Scott King and Douglas Gordon. Ephemera documenting the activities of the collective Throbbing Gristle are also presented. Jim Lambie—artist, DJ and ex-member of the band The Boy Hairdressers (which became Teenage Fanclub)— skilfully captures the...
Psychedelic Art at Tate Liverpool (2005) (press release)
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...Richard Hamilton, Robert Indiana (his celebrated Love signs), Richard Lindner and John McCracken. Numerous long-neglected artists are represented with rarely seen or specially reconstructed works and installations. Major environments include Mati Klarwein’s New Aleph Sanctuary 1963-71, which...
Tate Triennial 2003 (press release)
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...Richard Hamilton, Tim Head, Cornelia Parker, and Rachel Whiteread. The artists in Days Like These have not been selected to illustrate a theme, but rather for the pure vitality of their recent work. The exhibition will reveal the breadth of thoughtfulness, humour, subtlety and complexity in...
Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993)
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Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993) The title of Robert Hughes’ major pundit series about modern art was rather misleading because it contained little that was either shocking or new. This was because by 1980 modern art had become very familiar, an accepted part of official culture....
Arena, Art & Design TV programme - BBC Two - 1976- (1993)
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...Richard Hamilton, Anthony Caro and Marc Chaimowicz), the Cable Street Mural, John Byrne, the painters John Hoyland and Robert Natkin. A notable early programme broadcast in March 1976 dealt with video art; it featured tapes specially commissioned for the programme. Another was Finch’s My Way...
Monitor BBC TV programme - 1958-1965 (1993)
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...Richard Hamilton. Wheldon was also ignorant of popular culture: while viewing the rough cut of a Ken Russell film he failed to recognise the voluptuous figure of Brigitte Bardot. Monitor’s introductory graphics were simple and modern in character: the camera sucked the gaze inwards by zooming...
"This is Tomorrow" exhibition
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92
...Richard Hamilton, John McHale and Eduardo Paolozzi. One display was composed of images and artefacts derived from popular culture and the catalogue/poster featured Richard Hamilton’s seminal collage “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?” The popular culture section...
Styling (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton later produced writings and paintings paying homage to the styling of American automobiles. See also Expendability in Design, Independent Group, Pop Art, Surface Design. References and further readings > Gifford Jackson. “Analysis-design styles and clichés”, Industrial Design,...
Silk-Screenprinting / Photo-Screenprinting (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton, R. B. Kitaj, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Smith and Gerd Winner (Smith made three-dimensional screenprints as multiples in the ’60s). Painters employing the process of photo-screenprinting on to canvas have not been so numerous but they include: Alain Jacquet, Robert Rauschenberg,...
Rock Art / Rock Design / Rock Fashion (1992)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 16 Jun 92
...Richard Hamilton, David Oxtoby, Andy Warhol and Karl Wirsum, have also been involved. Also, the imagery of album covers and posters frequently pays homage to the history of art by reproducing or quoting from famous paintings and by imitating the major styles of art. Arguably, there are times...
Prison Art (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton’s The Citizen (1984). Rita Donagh is another British artist whose work has been deeply concerned with Northern Ireland; she has explored the theme of the H-Block prisons in a whole series of paintings and drawings. See also Artist Placement Group (APG), Art Therapy,...
Pop Art (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi— and it flourished in the 1960s in both Europe and the United States. British Pop artists of the 1960s included Clive Barker, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Joe Tilson. The Americans included...
Photo-montage (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton, Chris Jennings, Ray Johnson, Peter Kennard, Barbara Kruger, the [Poster-Film Collective], London, Jamie Reid, Klaus Staeck, John Stezaker and [Christer Themptander]. While many of these artists were Left-wingers or feminists employing Photo-montage as a political and...
Multiples (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton, Julio Le Parc, Claes Oldenburg, Daniel Spoerri and Joe Tilson. Usually, the Multiples were a minor stylistic version of the artist’s painting or sculpture. Many hoped that Multiples would bring about a democratization of art by making it available to a mass public at a cheap...
Kelpra Studios (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, R. B. Kitaj, Victor Pasmore, Bridget Riley and Joe Tilson. (The medium of screenprinting proved to be especially suited to the styles of op and pop in the ’60s.) The prints were sold via such outlets as the Marlborough Fine Art, Editions Alecto and the...
Installation Art (1992)
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...Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Andy Warhol, and Group Material. Furthermore, the nature of the display context has been an important factor in the appreciation and reception of modern art (see Brian O’Doherty’s account of the "white cube"— the ideal space of modernism— listed below). In the...
Independent Group (IG) (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 09 Jun 92
...Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson, John McHale, Eduardo Paolozzi, Colin St John Wilson, Alison and Peter Smithson, and William Turnbull. Thus the IG represented a wide cross-section of the visual arts and criticism. The aim of IG was to consider the implications for art and society of...
