Glorious Techniculture 1964

Richard Hamilton made "Glorious Techniculture" using collage and oil paint, though when I look at it I am really not sure when. It is one of those pieces that looks old and new at the same time. The material presence is subdued, almost like it is trying to hide what it is, or what it is made from, with these layers of browns and creams. I keep coming back to the circular form near the center with the cut out figures, like an abstracted mouse, as though it represents a kind of vortex or portal, a looking glass maybe? Hamilton is clearly interested in the aesthetics of modernity, and this image makes me think of how Rauschenberg and Warhol were using Pop imagery. He’s having a conversation with them, a painterly, collaged conversation. Isn't that how art works, though?