Sunday, November 30, 2025









































I'm sorry, but these Jamie Reid pictures from 1972 - the middle one is called Work and Play, not sure about the others - are just knock-offs of Richard Hamilton, aren't they? 























Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? - 1956


At least Bryan Ferry transposed it into words-and-music













Smart move to drop the paint brush and pick up a microphone and a piano


And Linder's are more porno-grotesque and oneiric-surrealist...  with a radical feminist edge absent in the precursors... 








































Reid carried on the collage carry-on into the Pistols work 


I would venture to say there is no feminist edge here and if anything the opposite: quite traditional male-rebel "you can't me tie down" / matrimony-as-trap / woman-as-conformist-deadweight, a la Look Back in Anger / "It's a Legal Matter"

Using pop culture materials from the same cultural moment that Hamilton was operating in 



















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