Graphic Thought Facility has updated their website with some great new projects. Among them is some sumptuously restrained catalog and publicity for a show at Gagosian’s Britannia Street Gallery called “Pop Art is:.” The show is structured around Richard Hamilton’s famous list of adjectives and includes a sensational lineup of top Pop talent. For more of my thoughts on this and Hamilton’s many other lists, check out my article “Collected Words.”
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Collected Words
Above: Richard Hamilton, Collected Words. Thames & Hudson, 1983. Cover design by Richard Hamilton.
Ames Room
Occupants of an Ames Room appear to those viewing it from a peephole at a fixed point to be greatly distorted in size. Someone may appear the size of a giant one moment, and, crossing the room, seem no larger than a baby the next. In fact, it is the room that is distorted, not its occupants. Created in 1946 by American opthamologist Adelbert Ames, Jr., almost none of the walls or floors of an Ames Room are at right angles, even though the room appears to be a perfect cube. Floor and ceiling slope; one back corner is much farther away than the other. The room plays on our predisposition to judge size comparatively and gauge space according to fixed laws of perspective defined during the Renaissance by Alberti and others.
