This extensive exhibition is very educational. It demonstrates very clearly the range of Hamilton's work from 1950 through to his death in 2011.He comes across as a very cerebral artist, with a particular connecton with Marcel Duchamp. It does not seem too fanciful to imagine he influenced Damien Hirst - Hamilton's display cabinet seems a forerunner of similar work by Hirst.
I was particularly struck by the political dimension to his work. It seems a shame that his Shock and Awe of Blair is in a private collection.
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