Richard hamilton just what makes todays homes

And yet Still-Life , , and Toaster , —67, are loving rephotographs of promotional material for Braun products, the first sprayed with photographic tints, the second shiny with chrome and Perspex; the only other change Hamilton made was to Anglicize the brand in the first Braun becomes Brown and to subsume the brand in the second Braun becomes Hamilton.

At the same time, these images reverse the readymade in one important respect: Far from indifferent to aesthetic taste, their selection flaunts it. Richard Hamilton, London, July 12, Photo: Robert Creeley. Hamilton produced his own industrial designs, too. Valencia Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change?

We would like to hear from you. Read more. Main menu additional Become a Member Shop. Not on display. Artist Richard Hamilton — Medium Digital print on paper. Collection Tate. Acquisition Presented by the artist Reference P Summary This image is among the most famous in British post-war art. Open Access. Object Details Title: Just what is it that makes today's homes so different?

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Etienne Lullin. Richard Hamilton: Prints and Multiples — Winterthur, , pp. Hamilton began his new digital collage by looking for an image of an interior in which to hold all the elements.

He chose a postcard of a Spanish hotel bedroom that the artist Derek Boshier born had sent to him many years previously as the basis for the structure of the room. After scanning the image and cutting and pasting to enlarge the space, Hamilton began to fill it with domestic objects and the two human figures. The images he selected are all topical. A small bust on a plinth next to the window opening on a tank is a caricature of Margaret Thatcher British Prime Minister who encouraged the use of arms against Iraq after that country invaded Kuwait in In the centre of the room a white microwave on a white table sits next to a plate of dry fish-fingers; behind it, the film playing on the TV is The Lawnmower Man , directed by Brett Leonard , a film about the making of a virtual reality movie.

Above the microwave, the planet Jupiter hangs as a light fitting, in combined reference to the moon ceiling of the collage and a visit to the planet by the spacecraft Ulysses in It hangs above shelves of video cassettes and streamlined audio equipment. In a humorous take on the dramatic shift in sexual identities and gender politics from the to the s, Hamilton substituted the image of a flexing female body builder that he found in a magazine for the voluptuous lady sitting on the sofa in the original version.

Hamilton replaced the muscle-bound male body builder of with a photograph of a financier that he took himself in the City of London using a digital camera he had borrowed from Kodak. The prints were donated by the British Broadcasting Corporation to viewers who contacted them to request a copy on a first come first serve basis.

The remaining fifty prints were distributed by the BBC. Elizabeth Manchester June