Richard Hamilton (artist)

Richard Hamilton (born April 24 1922) is a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by some critics and historians to be the first work of Pop Art.

References

• Lucy R. Lippard, Pop Art, London, Thames and Hudson, 1985
• David Hamilton, Collected Words 1953-1982, New York, Thames and Hudson, 1983
• David Robbins (ed.), The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, MIT Press, 1990
• Etienne Lullin, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Coppel (eds.), Richard Hamilton: Prints and Multiples 1939-2002, Richter, 2004