Richard Hamilton.
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He credited his lifelong interest in James Joyce with dispelling any inhibitions about experimenting with different forms of expression. He explained: “Joyce let me into an enormous mystery in a way, which was that you don’t have to think about style, that every chapter in Ulysses is in a different style. He is an absolute master of language, and some chapters are written in a progression of styles.”
Hamilton connected in some ways with swinging London, meeting the Beatles and Mick Jagger. A drugs bust in which Jagger and an art dealer were arrested was famously depicted by Hamilton in the 1967 work “Swingeing London”. He was also commissioned to help design the album The Beatles, usually referred to as “The White Album”. He recalled Paul McCartney giving him three tea chests full of photographs for use in a collage inside the album sleeve.
