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This cast belongs with a suite of screenprints, which began with a drawing copied, in 1963, from an illustration of the development of tyre treads from 1902 -1950, in a 1951 edition of the magazine 'Technique et Architecture', demonstrates his interest in design technology. He was also interested in exploring deeper, philosophical issues relating to ideas of the early 20th-century Dada artist Marcel Duchamp in the use of tautology and of complication through repetition. He developed the drawing first as a single screenprint in 1964 and again in 1970 when he was offered the services of an American computer programmer to plot the perspective of the drawings. The 3-d relief cast was  produced as part of the suite and the textual documentation (Circ.11b-1973) is also an integral part of the work.","physicalDescription":"cast synthetic rubber relief (silicone elastomer)","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Hamilton, Richard","id":"A2916"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Frielinghaus, Hartmut","id":"A20136"},"association":{"text":"cast-maker","id":"x41023"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Professional Prints","id":"A20122"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"x32600"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Eye Editions","id":"A20123"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"x32600"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Petersburg Press","id":"A20137"},"association":{"text":"distributors","id":"x41024"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Synthetic rubber (silicone elastomer)","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"DR","shelf":"169","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Hamburg","id":"x28900"},"association":{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Switzerland","id":"x29199"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1963-1970","earliest":"1963-01-01","latest":"1970-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"1972","earliest":"1972-01-01","latest":"1972-12-31"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"CIRC.5-1973","id":"O139261"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.6-1973","id":"O139264"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.7-1973","id":"O139266"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.8-1973","id":"O139267"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.9-1973","id":"O139271"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.10-1973","id":"O139272"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.11-1973","id":"O139273"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.11B-1973","id":"O139397"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Acquired from Nigel Greenwood Inc., London in 1973","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"60","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"85","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"0.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sight size of overall depth","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The suite Circ.5-11B-1973 was originally housed in a paper-lined portfolio box lined with white paper and with an inner paper and foam support on which 68/150 is written in pencil. Text on container: 'Richard Hamilton / Five Tyres Remoulded'. Dims. of container: 86.5 x 61.2 x 3.2cm. Container is scuffed and stained. Container is unnumbered and stored elsewhere, currently (2011) at the back of the '1st Mezz' in the National Art Library.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Richard Hamilton: cast synthetic rubber relief, part of the suite of five prints and cast rubber relief 'Five Tyres Remoulded'. Published 1972","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"HM= Editions Hansjorg Mayer: Richard Hamilton Prints 1939-1983.  Stuttgart and London 1984\r\nF= Richard S. Field: The Prints of Richard Hamilton. Catalogue of Exhibition at The Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown,Connecticut. 1973."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Richard Hamilton, Collected Words.  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