Richard Hamilton Collected Works 1953 1982

Richard Hamilton was largely responsible for the radical developments that transformed the British art scene in the 1950's and 1960's and his seminal role in the birth of Pop Art has been acknowledged internationally. Although he is best known as a painter and printmaker, his influence on British art of the past fifty years has also been exercised through teaching and through a number of ground-breaking exhibitions: Growth and Form in 1951; Man, Machine and Motion in 1955; and This is Tomorrow in 1956. Collected Words brings together in one volume the full range of Hamilton's writings, together with illustrations of his own works, and other visual documents which have been relevant to his work as an artist. He discusses his own paintings and prints, teaching, industrial design, technical developments in the entertainment industries in the 1950's and photography. There is also a group of essays on the work of Marcel Duchamp, to whose work Hamilton has shown a steadfast commitment over several decades. Readable, entertaining, fastidious and to the point - this is an absorbing artist's working autobiography.