State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
THE BRITISH ARE COMING
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Richard Hamilton, This is Tomorrow, l956 The original collage that has become an icon of Pop did not appear in the seminal show This is Tomorrow. A crude high contrast version of the image was used for the poster and also appeared in the catalog. Many of the images were chosen from the same trunk of American magazines that Paolozzi pilfered for his famous Bunk presentation at an early Independent Group meeting of 1952. Photo: ARS |
It was at an IG meeting that Eduardo Paolozzi, the Scot with an Italian name, gave a now famous overhead projector show Bunk consisting of images culled from American magazines with little or no verbal explanation. This group of images had no apparent structure, they were random, both in their grouping and in the sequence of their presentation. Greeted with a wink and a nod by some, the presentation struck a chord in Richard Hamilton as well as Lawrence Alloway, a critic of both art and society.They responded to the fantasy/ideal of abundance as it was represented in Paolozzi’s presentation.
