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 | | Early on in his career Pop-art midwife Richard Hamilton decided two things: First, he was determined not to simply produce artworks; second, he would, as he puts it, "control the context." "I often feel, as Marcel Duchamp did before," the British artist once remarked, "that a single work doesn't mean very much. |
 | | A didactic work for a didactic exhibition, the collage represents an attempt, Hamilton was later to explain, to throw into the cramped space of a living room some representation of the ideas and objects crowding postwar consciousness. |
 | | Hamilton admits the painting is "none too cheery," "an old man's picture," and he goes on to compare it to Sartre's No Exit, which takes place in a kind of hotel-room limbo, a place to await your final destination. |
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