Richard Hamilton
I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
Artwork Detail
The source of I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas is a frame from the film 'Holiday Inn' and shows Bing Crosby crossing a hotel lobby. A continuing preoccupation of Hamilton's has been the question of how technical advances affect the way we perceive the world around us. Just as the film scene is a fiction contrived from illusionistic set design, lighting, camera angles, lenses and controlled colour processing, so too the artist modulates the screenprint through the application of collage and hand-painting. (Andy and Friends, 1999)
- Title
- I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1971
- Medium
- screenprint on collotype with collage
- Dimensions
- 750 x 1010 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1975
- Accession no
- 1975/16/1
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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