Just what makes today's house so different, so interesting? is a collage by British artist Richard Hamilton. It measures 10.25 inches (260 mm) - 9.75 inches (248 mm). This work is now in the Kunsthalle TÃÆ'¼bingen collection, TÃÆ'¼bingen, Germany. This is the first pop art work to reach iconic status.
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What exactly makes today's house so different, so interesting? was created in 1956 for the catalog exhibition This Is Tomorrow in London, England where it was reproduced. black and white. In addition, the pieces were used in posters for exhibitions. Hamilton and his friends John McHale and John Voelcker have collaborated to create the room that became the most famous part of the exhibition.
Hamilton later created several works in which he reworked the subject and composition of pop art collages, including a 1992 version featuring female bodybuilder Bernie Price.
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Source
According to a 2007 article by the art historian John-Paul Stonard, the collage consists of drawings taken primarily from American magazines. The main template is a modern drawing room in an ad in Ladies Home Journal for Armstrong Floors, which describes the "modern fashions on the floor". The title is also taken from a copy in the ad, stating "Just what makes today's house so different, so interesting? Planning is open of course - and the use of bold colors." Body builder is Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski, LA winner in 1954. This photo was taken from Tomorrow's Man magazine, September 1954. Artist Jo Baer, ​​who posed for erotic magazines in the past his young, has claimed that he is a mock woman on the couch, but the magazine whose picture was taken has not been identified. The ladder was taken from an ad for the new Hoover "Constellation" model, and sourced from the same issue of Ladies Home Journal in June 1955 as Armstrong Floors ad. The cover image of Young Romance is from an advertisement for a magazine included in its related publication Young Love (no 15, 1950). The TV was Stromberg-Carlson, taken from a 1955 ad. Hamilton insisted that the carpet was an explosion from a photograph depicting a crowd at Whitley Bay beach. Earth planet image at the top is cut from Life Magazine (Sept 1955). The original reference image for a collage from Life Magazine supplied to Hamilton is in the John McHale file at Yale University. It was one of the first images set in the collage. The Victoria man in the portrait has not been identified. The periodic chair is a copy of The Journal of Commerce, founded by telegraphic pioneer Samuel F. B. Morse. Tape recorder is made in English, Boosey & amp; Hawkes "Reporter", but the source of the image has not been recognized. The view through the window is an exterior exterior of a cinema in 1927 featuring the premiere of the earliest "talkie" movie, The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson; the original true source of the image has not been found.
Authorship
In 2006, the artist John McHale's son, John McHale Jr., said that his father claimed he was the creator of the image, having given the original scalable design and iconic materials to the collage, including the magazines of many collages assembled.. McHale said that the source material was his, sent to Hamilton from Yale University, where McHale was studying, and that Hamilton's role was merely "mechanical" cutting and sticking according to McHale's design.
In response, Hamilton says this is "unreasonable." The collage has been reproduced many times over the past fifty years and my authorship has never, to my knowledge, been contested by John McHale Sr. while he was alive. " Hamilton said that McHale gave him a rough layout for six pages for the exhibition catalog It's Tomorrow , but he only uses two of them, and the other pages, including this collage, are created by himself; The American magazines that provide the images come from Magda and Frank Cordell's collections, and the pictures were cut by Hamilton's wife Terry O'Reilly and Magda Cordell.
Magda Cordell has said that "While Richard, of course, collects the famous poster collage for the group (What makes today's house so different, so interesting?), Some of the material in the collage came from John McHale's file, and both Terry Hamilton and I helping to collect pictures We often look for materials in the studio that John and I share.Sometimes when I look at the poster, I think it looks a bit like the sitting room in Cleveland Square where we studio it, but this is probably just my imagination ".
References in popular culture
The Dutch pop band, Shine, led by former Fatal Flowers frontalist Richard Janssen, uses this image behind their three EPs ( Popmusic , This Is and Is Friends Electric? ), which was released in the spring of 1995.
In 2007, the new wave band of Serbian and former Yugoslavian waves VIS Idoli released a set of career spanning boxes featuring images as the basis for the box set cover.
Notes and references
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