Reaper, Reaper

September 13, 2011 10:07 AM

Richard Hamilton, early pop artist, has died age 89.

His Tate Gallery works.

His Gagosian Gallery page.

His Ulysses illustrations.

His famous collage, ‘Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different,
so appealing?’

An essay on that famous collage, Pop in the Age of Boom [PDF]

(Meanwhile, the Detroit Pistons basketball player with the same name is still alive.)

posted by chavenet (12 comments total)

Richard Hamilton's illustrations of Joyce is really smart, and extend/riff on the nature of collage in early modernism. some here As well, his 9 points of pop is just a genius work of marketing.
posted by PinkMoose at 10:19 AM on September 13, 2011

sorry, you linked it, im an idiot
posted by PinkMoose at 10:20 AM on September 13, 2011

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posted by shakespeherian at 10:53 AM on September 13, 2011

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posted by Benjamin Nushmutt at 10:56 AM on September 13, 2011

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posted by emperor.seamus at 11:18 AM on September 13, 2011

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posted by gorgor_balabala at 11:41 AM on September 13, 2011

It's always interesting to me how widely the US and UK "Pop Art" movements diverged after similar beginnings; Hamilton's collages seem almost naive now. Still, sad to see him go.
posted by klangklangston at 12:23 PM on September 13, 2011

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posted by Thorzdad at 12:50 PM on September 13, 2011

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posted by theartandsound at 5:25 PM on September 13, 2011

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posted by Mister Bijou at 10:51 PM on September 13, 2011

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that Hamilton helped design The Beatles' White Album.

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posted by jonp72 at 4:44 AM on September 14, 2011

RIP, and thanks for Swingeing London
posted by DanCall at 6:20 AM on September 14, 2011