1. Richard Hamilton
He Finished at the Slade School of Art in London in 1951 after working in advertising during the forties. ... Richard Hamilton was one of an independent group who wanted his art to be "of the moment", rather than above it. ... In his works he included journalism, cinema, advertising, sex, and television, as well as many other topics that were big in the moment that the art was being created. The idea that advertising could shape the consumer's desires excited Hamilton, therefore, he used lots of snippets of advertising from magazines and television in his work (Fineberg, 239). ... ...
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