HoMVC (under construction): Pop Art

Sunday, 14 June 2015

David Hockney (1937 - )

David Hockney, We 2 Boys Together Clinging, 1961

Pauline Boty (1938 - 1966)

Pauline Boty, The Only Blonde In The World, 1963

The Beatles

The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967; album cover designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth

Peter Blake (1932 - )

Peter Blake, Self-Portrait with Badges, 1961

Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011)

Richard Hamilton, Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland, 1964

This Is Tomorrow (Whitechapel Art Gallery) 1956

Richard Hamilton, This is Tomorrow - exhibition poster, 1956

This is Tomorrow - installation view, 1956

This is Tomorrow - view of installation by Alison and Peter Smithson – ‘Patio and Pavilion’ featuring Head of a Man by Nigel Henderson, 1956

Nigel Henderson, Head of a Man, 1956

This is Tomorrow, detail of exhibition catalogue, designed by Edward Wright, 1956

This is Tomorrow, detail of exhibition catalogue, designed by Edward Wright, 1956 - portrait of 'Group 6' contributing artists

This is Tomorrow, detail of exhibition catalogue, designed by Edward Wright, 1956

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005)

Eduardo Paolozzi, Evadne in Green Dimension, 1952, from BUNK!. (1971 screenprint from original collage)

From Tate Gallery: "…[T]he collages Paolozzi made between 1941 and 1952, [are] collectively entitled ‘Bunk’. This title was derived from a detail of one of the collages in the group, ‘Evadne in Green Dimension’ 1952, which contains the printed word ‘BUNK!’. In the catalogue of his Tate Gallery retrospective in 1971, the artist states beside a reproduction of this collage that this word gave the title to the lecture he gave at the Independent Group. This lecture, at the premises of the I.C.A. in London in 1952, was the first event to be presented in the programme of the Independent Group. Its main feature was the projection by Paolozzi through an epidiascope of a large number of images mainly removed from magazines and including material from science fiction, aviation, technology, comics, advertising for food, domestic appliances, cars, films, etc., pin-up pictures, news photographs and medical diagrams. Although many of the images projected were whole pages from magazines, untampered with except by the act of isolation, the artist told the compiler that the collages from ‘Bunk’ were among the material that was projected."