Richard Hamilton. Swingeing London 67


Richard Hamilton. Swingeing London 67

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One of the defining paintings of British Pop art, Richard Hamilton´s Swingeing London 67 (f) depicts two men--Mick Jagger and Hamilton´s art dealer Robert Fraser--handcuffed together in the back of a police van. The image is taken from a newspaper photograph that shows the two being driven from Lewes prison to Chichester Magistrates Court following their June 1967 arrest for possession of drugs. The title is a clever and bitter play on words, conflating the "swinging" of 1960s-era London with the "swingeing" (to swinge is to beat or scourge) punishment meted out to new cultural heroes by the law.