I love this piece by Richard Hamilton.

If you’re going to the Tate Britain… scratch that, GO to the Tate Britain and see this. Superb.

The Toaster

Toaster is the first of several prints Hamilton has made combining different printing techniques. The image shows a photograph of a toaster, seen from the side, set against a hazy abstract background. This background was printed by offset lithography, resulting in a flat grey and subtly-graduated field of black dots. The toaster itself and the text beneath its image were screenprinted before a rectangle of metalised polyester was collaged between the toaster’s black plastic ends to imitate the shiny metal surface of its body. Hamilton replaced the manufacturer’s logo on one end of the toaster with his own name, in lower case red letters.