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Hamilton’s early work is indelibly associated with Pop art, a term introduced by his colleague Lawrence Alloway in 1958. As with other Pop artists, Hamilton utilized readymade images pilfered from mass media. The work here stems from a snapshot he took while watching a TV news report on the May 4, 1970, shooting of nine students at Kent State University by members of the National Guard. Hamilton translated the photograph into a haunting screenprint whose 5,000 impressions ensured its wide distribution. Ringed by a black border—a remnant of the television screen from which it was taken—this contemporary pietà asserts its identity as a televisual image, emphasizing the role TV had recently begun to play in the framing of public experience.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"This work began as a bleary snapshot that the Pop artist took while watching television news reports of the Kent State University shootings. Capturing a fleeting moment of agony, Hamilton translated his photographof-a-photograph into a haunting screenprint whose five thousand impressions ensured its wide distribution. Ringed by a black border—a remnant of the television screen from which it was taken—this contemporary pietà asserts its identity as a televisual image and underscores the role that television had recently begun to play in the framing of public experience.","remarks":"Picturing Protest"}],"datebegin":1970,"sortnumber":"2008   58","published_date":"2026-04-09 02:00:38.801515","objectid":55361,"dimensions":"73 × 103 cm (28 3/4 × 40 9/16 in.)\r\nframe: 81 × 109.5 × 4 cm (31 7/8 × 43 1/8 × 1 9/16 in.)","on_view":false}