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Richard Hamilton, designer

Kent State, 1970

Description

Maker

  • Dorothea Leonhart, publisher
  • Richard Hamilton, 1922-2011, British, designer
  • Dietz Offizin, printer

Title

Kent State

Year

1970

Medium

Color screenprint on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color screen print

Supports

  • Medium weight cream Schoeller wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 66.8 x 87.2 cm (26 5/16 x 34 5/16 inches)

Identification

Edition

875/5000

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brooke Alexander

Object Number

73.075

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Former Glory

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

For a week in May 1970, Richard Hamilton watched television and photographed what he saw on screen. Mechanically translating the violence happening at Kent State from his television to a print medium, Hamilton considered the ways information is distilled and transmitted to the public.

On May 4, 1970, when students at Kent State who were peacefully protesting the Vietnam War did not disperse, members of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds of ammunition into the unarmed crowd, killing four. Nine others were injured, including Dean Kahler, depicted here, his fallen body seemingly enveloped in the colors of the flag. Kent State caused a national outcry, and four million students across the U.S. went on strike.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Kent State with the accession number of 73.075. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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