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TiT [This is Tomorrow]
Print
2002 (printed)
2002 (printed)
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Richard Hamilton is one of Britain's most important 20th century artists for whom printmaking has been a primary means of expression and who has always engaged new technology in his work.
TiT commemorates 'This is Tomorrow', the ground-breaking exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1956, in which painters, sculptors, designers and architects formed 12 groups, each making an installation. This print depicts a passage through Hamilton's installation in that exhibition. As with Q.E.D. (E.1075-1993; a computer-aided colour print, made in 1993, in which he definitively updated the now iconic image he made for a poster for 'This is Tomorrow' (E.176-1994)), Hamilton re-visits a moment in his own career to comment on historical shifts since that moment.
TiT commemorates 'This is Tomorrow', the ground-breaking exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1956, in which painters, sculptors, designers and architects formed 12 groups, each making an installation. This print depicts a passage through Hamilton's installation in that exhibition. As with Q.E.D. (E.1075-1993; a computer-aided colour print, made in 1993, in which he definitively updated the now iconic image he made for a poster for 'This is Tomorrow' (E.176-1994)), Hamilton re-visits a moment in his own career to comment on historical shifts since that moment.
Object details
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| Title | TiT [This is Tomorrow] (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | 'TiT' (This is Tomorrow), screenprint, Richard Hamilton, United Kingdom, 2002 |
| Physical description | 30-colour screenprint on paper. Portrait format print in colours printed in two parallel panels with gap of c.1cm between. left panel slightly wider than right. Top left is red rectangle with circular black and white pattern (based on a Marcel Duchamp work) below this a white panel with inset like receding hall of doors, below this a grey rectangle. Right panelprinted in greys with steeply receding perspective with 'optical' strips on 'floor' and right 'wall' . |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 25/50 |
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| Credit line | Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund |
| Object history | The print visually encapsulates the essence of the structure which Richard Hamilton created for the 'This is Tomorrow' exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1956. |
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| Summary | Richard Hamilton is one of Britain's most important 20th century artists for whom printmaking has been a primary means of expression and who has always engaged new technology in his work. TiT commemorates 'This is Tomorrow', the ground-breaking exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1956, in which painters, sculptors, designers and architects formed 12 groups, each making an installation. This print depicts a passage through Hamilton's installation in that exhibition. As with Q.E.D. (E.1075-1993; a computer-aided colour print, made in 1993, in which he definitively updated the now iconic image he made for a poster for 'This is Tomorrow' (E.176-1994)), Hamilton re-visits a moment in his own career to comment on historical shifts since that moment. |
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| Accession number | E.157-2003 |
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| Record created | May 27, 2003 |
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