Download or read book Modern World the Art of Richard Hamilton written by MICHAEL.. BRACEWELL and published by Art / Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the father of Pop art', he produced experimental and multilayered work in a range of media that both explored and crystallized the postwar world of consumer capitalism and popular culture in an attempt to 'get all of living' into his art. Seminal works such as his collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? from 1956 and his silkscreen and related series based on a news photograph of Mick Jagger Swingeing London 67 came to define an era in which new commodities and technologies, mass production, mass media, and celebrity came to the fore, and challenged the hierarchical values of 'high' and 'low' art. Later works tackling subjects such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the Gulf War contained a serious political message, as he continued to be 'passionately responsive to his own time', as one critic put it. His groundbreaking exhibitions and installations, first as a leading member of the Independent Group in the 1950s, and later at venues such as the Venice Biennale, influenced curatorial practice in the latter twentieth century and into the next. His importance to fields beyond contemporary art was demonstrated when he was asked to design the cover of the Beatles' so-called White Album in 1968.In this book, acclaimed cultural commentator and writer Michael Bracewell presents a concise introduction to this deeply complex artist. Written from a personal perspective, it discusses Hamilton's all-embracing work in relation to the music, film, and popular culture of the day in a rich new interpretation of his art and ideas. The book covers the full scope of Hamilton's practice, and includes examples from the various media in which he worked, from collage, print and painting to sculpture and photography, as well as the many diverse subjects of the modern world that he addressed. With photographs and quotes from Hamilton throughout, this attractive volume will appeal to anyone wanting to understand his iconic and pioneering work and its lasting cultural legacy.
Download or read book The Last Storytellers written by Richard Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.
Download or read book Richard Hamilton written by Andrew Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated study of Richard Hamilton's famous Pop art painting of Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser in handcuffs. One of the defining paintings of British Pop art, Richard Hamilton's Swingeing London 67 (f) depicts two men--Mick Jagger and Hamilton's art dealer Robert Fraser--handcuffed together in the back of a police van. The image is taken from a newspaper photograph that shows the two being driven from Lewes prison to Chichester Magistrates Court following their June 1967 arrest for possession of drugs. The title is a clever and bitter play on words, conflating the "swinging" of 1960s-era London with the "swingeing" (to swinge is to beat or scourge) punishment meted out to new cultural heroes by the law. Hamilton's painting is far from reportage; it portrays the historical clash of cultures between Pop (and Pop art) and the establishment. In this illustrated study of Hamilton's celebrated painting, Andrew Wilson views Swingeing London 67 (f) as history painting, to be understood in the context of the struggle against the British state's attempt--aided and abetted by the popular press--to repress any expression of personal liberation. Hamilton's Pop art idiom of figuration and media images was his way of refusing the demands of an old aesthetic order. For him, Pop art was the expression of an open-ended, analytical, critical, and artistic process that reflected his own direct engagement with ethical issues. With Swingeing London 67 (f), Hamilton offers not only a representational image but also a trigger for critical activity--an image of an event and an image of what determines the conditions of that image.
Download or read book Tangier written by Richard Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tangier is perennially fascinating and experiencing a major renaissance. It's a popular travel destination once again and people are interested in the city's extraordinarily rich history-- from ancient beginnings suffused with myth and legend, through years of invasion and conquest, on to its becoming a focus of European rivalry and hotbed of espionage and intrigue. This book has been woven with travellers' anecdotes and extracts of inspired poetry and prose, all celebrating the unique charms of the Moroccan city"--
Download or read book How to Train Your Dragon The Serpent s Heir written by Dean DeBlois and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dragons of Berk are coming to Dark Horse! Hiccup, Toothless, and all their dragon-riding friends from DreamWorks Animation's acclaimed How to Train Your Dragon films are starting new adventures in comics! Created with the help of the film's writer, director, and producer Dean DeBlois, these graphic novellas will bridge the gap between the second film and the upcoming third film. More adventures, more dragon lore, and more fun! You won't have to wait years for more dragons; they are coming to you--in comics!
Download or read book If I Were You written by Richard Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Daisy and Dad swapped around, she could feed Dad porridge while SHE ate chocolate fromage frais. And she could wheel him past the neighbours all dressed in pink! Dad thinks it would be great not to have to do any cleaning or cooking but to visit the zoo and play in the park instead! An irresistibly charming picture book, wonderful for fathers and daughters (and the whole family) to share.
Download or read book Richard Hamilton written by Richard Hamilton and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hamilton has always been ahead of his time through use of material from popular culture and new technologies, often posing questions about how the media captures political events. This book brings together the famous 'protest' paintings as well as new political works that reveal the artist's incisive thinking.
Download or read book Who Voted for Hitler written by Richard F. Hamilton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the traditional belief that Hitler's supporters were largely from the lower middle class, Richard F. Hamilton analyzes Nazi electoral successes by turning to previously untapped sources--urban voting records. This examination of data from a series of elections in fourteen of the largest German cities shows that in most of them the vote for the Nazis varied directly with the class level of the district, with the wealthiest districts giving it the strongest support. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Polaroid Portraits written by Richard Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s New Empire written by Richard F. Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Hamilton deals with some of the antecedents and the outcome of the Spanish-American war, specifically, the acquisition of an American empire. It critiques the "progressive" view of those events, questioning the notion that businessmen (and compliant politicians) aggressively sought new markets, particularly those of Asia. Hamilton shows that United States' exports continued to go, predominantly, to the major European nations. The progressive tradition has focused on empire, specifically on the Philippines depicted as a stepping stone to the China market. Hamilton shows that the Asian market remained minuscule in the following decades, and that other historical works have neglected the most important change in the nation's trade pattern, the growth of the Canada market, which two decades after the 1898 war, became the United States' largest foreign market.The book begins with a review and criticism of the basic assumptions of the progressive framework. These are, first, that the nation is ruled by big business (political leaders being compliant co-workers). Second, that those businessmen are zealous profit seekers. And third, that they are well-informed rational decision-makers. A further underlying assumption is that the economy was not functioning well in the 1890s and that a need for new markets was recognized as an urgent necessity, so that big business, accordingly, demanded world power and empire. Each of these assumptions, pivotal elements in the dominant progressive tradition in historical writing, is challenged, with an alternative viewpoint presented.Hamilton presents a different, more complex view of the events following the Spanish-American War. The class-dominance theory is not supported. The alternative argued here, elitism, proves appropriate and more useful. This review and assessment of arguments about American expansion in the 1890s adds much to the literature of the period.
Download or read book Reaper written by Richard Hamilton and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starting point of this publication -- and its eponymous exhibition held in Zurich in Spring 2017 -- is the conceptual encounter between British Pop art artist, Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) and Swiss historian and critic of architecture Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), famous for his landmark book, Space, Time, and Architecture which is an influential history of modern architecture published in 1941.In 1949 Richard Hamilton -- then a member of the London-based Independent Group -- realized the, Reaper print series as a reaction to Giedion's 1948 book, Mechanization Takes Command in which he describes the mechanization of everyday life.Reproducing Hamilton's complete Reaper series juxtaposed with selected examples of illustrations created by Giedion alongside many related illustrations, this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars, all of whom question the relationships between visual arts, technology, science, and architecture.Among the many topics discussed are Hamilton's early works and exhibition installation practice, post-war British biotechnology and architecture, Hippie Modernism, and the visual strategy of Giedion's books.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Reaper: Richard Hamilton and Sigfried Giedion at Graphische Sammlung ETH Z�rich (3 May - 25 June 2017). A co-operation between Graphische Sammlung ETH Z�rich, gta exhibitions, and gta archive.English and German text.
Download or read book Fearbook Club written by Richard Hamilton and published by Aftershock Comics. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new kid in middle school is tossed in with the misfits of the Yearbook Club only to uncover a mystery going back decades: One student from each class goes missing every year, and no one seems to care. Now, the "club" will be pulled into supernatural peril as they attempt to solve these mysteries, all while being harangued by their drama-inclined advisor, their creepy principal and, oh yeah, the ghosts of those kids who have disappeared.
Download or read book Richard Hamilton Collected Words written by Richard Hamilton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1983-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers essays by the influential British painter and cultural critic on such subjects as Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, advertising, and industrial design.
Download or read book Sir Richard Hamilton A Novel written by Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaborations of Ch Rotham written by Richard Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published as the catalogue of a travelling exhibition, 1976 and 1977.
Download or read book Sir Richard Hamilton A Novel written by Sir Richard Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander Hamilton written by Richard Sylla and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern--and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to American history, including his role as an early abolitionist. He played a crucial part in the political, legal, and economic development of the new nation, but noted Hamilton scholar Richard Sylla reveals the flesh-and-blood man with captivating details of his private life as well as his infamous duel with Vice President Burr. Sylla expertly tells Hamilton's incredible story like no other.
