Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing, 1956 in England, pop artists called themselves the ‘independent group’; they came from a different political climate; Europe was devastated by the war, and thanks to television, America starts to become exported world wide   young artists see this depiction of America’s consumer culture and see a romantic vision of it, and make fun of it as well  collage taken from advertising and other sources  commentary on how commercials make people completely inadequate   canned food on the table; people were forced to eat canned food because there was not a lot of food to go around

Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing, 1956

  • in England, pop artists called themselves the ‘independent group’; they came from a different political climate; Europe was devastated by the war, and thanks to television, America starts to become exported world wide  
  • young artists see this depiction of America’s consumer culture and see a romantic vision of it, and make fun of it as well 
  • collage taken from advertising and other sources 
  • commentary on how commercials make people completely inadequate  
  • canned food on the table; people were forced to eat canned food because there was not a lot of food to go around
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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