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Richard Hamilton «Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?» | Just what is that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?
Richard Hamilton, «Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?», 1956
Just what is that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? | ©
 


 
 
United States | 25*26 cm (W*H) | Collage auf Papier | Archive / Collection: Collection Edwin Janss jr, Thousand Oaks
 

 Richard Hamilton
«Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?»

A small collage which a few years before the emergence of Pop Art foresees many of the coming art movement’s characteristics: the consumer world takes control of the secluded safety of home life—in which new media, tape recorder, and television come to play a central role. This results in Hamilton’s repeated confrontation with the role of media in interiors, and his combining, for example, the painted image of a radio with a functioning, sound-producing technique built directly behind it.