Richard Hamilton, Shock and Awe, 2007-8. Inkjet print on Hewlett-Packard canvas, 79"x39"
Not a ton of time to digest this piece, but really interesting contemporary tangent to find while brushing up on the Independent Group and early British Pop. I'll let Hal do the digesting for me.
Hal Foster: "...this wannabe cowboy appears here channeling Bush channeling Reagan channeling John Wayne. Why did he wannabe? That remains one question, and Hamilton captures precisely the lethal absurdity of his misidentification as Texas Ranger. Once again the pictorial pastiche performed by the artist rehearses and exposes the political pastiche performed by his subject." - in Richard Hamilton: October Files (2010), p. 156.
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