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

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"Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" is a 1956 collage by British artist Richard Hamilton that is widely regarded as a seminal work of Pop Art, satirically depicting postwar consumer culture and mass media.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pop Art artwork
collage
work of art
artForm collage
artHistoricalStatus seminal work of Pop Art
artworkSurface paper
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Richard Hamilton NERFINISHED
depictionLocation modern living room
depicts American consumerism
advertising imagery
bodybuilder
cinema marquee
comic strip
domestic interior
mass media
pin-up girl
postwar consumer culture
television set
tinned ham
vacuum cleaner
genre satirical art
hasPart figure holding a lollipop labeled POP
large vacuum cleaner in foreground
poster of a comic-style image on wall
television showing a film scene
hasTitle Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? NERFINISHED
inception 1956
languageOfTitle English
movement Pop Art NERFINISHED
notableFor being an early example of Pop Art
influence on British Pop Art
satirical treatment of consumer culture
theme Americanization of British culture NERFINISHED
domesticity
mass production
materialism
sexuality
titlePunctuation question mark
usesMaterial magazine cuttings
newspaper images
usesTechnique photomontage

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Richard Hamilton notableWork Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?