Richard Hamilton

Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Just What Is It that Makes Todays floors So Different, So Appealing? ) Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing? ArtistRichard Hamilton Year1956 TypeCollage Dimensions26 cm ? 24. 8 cm (10. 25 in ? 9. 75 in) LocationKunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing? is a collage by English artist Richard Hamilton. 12 It measures 10. 25 in (260 mm) ? 9. 75 in (248 mm).The work is now in the collection of the Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. It was the inaugural work of pop art to achieve iconic status. 2 Contents hide 1 History 2 Sources 3 Authorship 4 Notes and references editHistory Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing? was created in 1956 for the catalogue of the exhibition This Is Tomorrow in London, England in which it was reproduced in black and whi te. In addition, the piece was used in posters for the exhibit. 3 Hamilton and his friends deception McHale and washstand Voelcker had collaborated to create the room that became the best-known part of the exhibition.Hamilton subsequently created several works in which he reworked the subject and composition of the pop art collage, including a 1992 magnetic variation featuring a female bodybuilder. editSources The collage consists of epitomes taken mainly from American magazines. The principal template was an image of a modern sitting-room in an advertisement in Ladies Home Journal for Armstrong Floors, which describes the modern fashion in floors. The title is also taken from copy in the advert, which states Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing?Open formulation of course and a bold use of color. The body builder is Irvin Zabo Koszewski, winner of Mr L. A. in 1954. The photograph is taken from Tomorrows Man magazine, September 1954. The artist Jo Baer, who posed for tickling magazines in her youth, has stated that she is the burlesque woman on the sofa, but the magazine from which the picture is taken has not been identified. The staircase is taken from an advertisement for Hoovers new standard Constellation,and it was sourced from the same issue of Ladies Home Journal, June 1955, as the Armstrong Floors ad.The picture of the cover of Young Romance was from an advertisement for the magazine included in its sister-publication Young lovemaking (no 15, 1950). The TV is a Stromberg-Carlson, taken from a 1955 advert. Hamilton asserted that the rug was a blow-up from a photograph depicting a crowd on the Whitley Bay beach. The image of planet Earth at the top was cut from Life Magazine (Sept 1955). 4 The original reference image for the collage from Life Magazine supplied to Hamilton is in the John McHale archives at Yale University. It was one of the first images to be laid down in the collage. 4 The Victorian man in the port rait has not been identified. The periodical on the chair is a copy of The Journal of Commerce, founded by telegraph pioneer Samuel F. B. Morse. 4 The tape recorder is a British-made Boosey & Hawkes Reporter, but the source of the image has not been identified. The view through the window is a widely reproduced photograph of the exterior of a cinema in 1927 showing the premiere of the early talkie film, The issue Singer starring Al Jolson the actual original source of the image has not yet been found. editAuthorship In 2006, artist John McHales son, John McHale Jr. , express that his father claimed he was the creator of the image, having provided the original measured design and iconic material for the collage, including the magazines from which much of the collage was assembled. 5 McHale said that the source material was his, sent to Hamilton from Yale University, where McHale was studying, and that Hamiltons character reference was simply mechanical cutting out and pasting acco rding to McHales design. In response, Hamilton said this was absurd.The collage has been widely reproduced over the last fifty years and my written material was never, to my knowledge, contest by John McHale Sr. when he was alive. 6 Hamilton said that McHale provided him with a rough layout for six pages for the This is Tomorrow exhibition catalogue, but he only used deuce of them, and the other pages, including this collage, were created by himself the American magazines that provided the images were from the collection of Magda and Frank Cordell, and the images were cut out by Hamiltons wife, Terry OReilly, and Magda Cordell. 6 Magda Cordell has said that some of the material for that collage came from John McHales files, date other items came from American magazines brought back by her (from a visit to McHale at Yale), and that the piece was put together by Hamilton. 7 A 2007 article by John-Paul Stonard asserts Hamiltons authorship of the collage, providing an exposition of th e sources used by Hamilton and the circumstances