Just What Is It that Makes Today's Home So Different and So Appealing? - Collage by the ‘Father of Pop Art’ Richard Hamilton. The collage appeared at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1956 - The Pop Art aesthetic was born.
...the vacuum cleaner, the tinned ham, the tape recorder, the body builder's muscles, the cone-shape coolie hat perched on the sexy naked housewife on the sofa. Hamilton's consumer's catalogue is well observed and playful. But at a more profound level it is horribly disquieting. No other work of art of its period expresses so precisely the jarringly ambivalent spirit of the age. - theguardian