Adonis in Y Fronts

1950–2010 · 工作地

Solingen

1957–1961

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

During these years he is very active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and produces a work parodying the Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell for rejecting a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

1957–1961

Teaches at the Royal College of Art

He teaches at the Royal College of Art from 1957 to 1961, where he promotes David Hockney and Peter Blake.

early 1960s

Rescuing Schwitters’s Merzbau

In the early 1960s he receives an Arts Council grant to investigate the condition of Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau in Cumbria; the research eventually leads him to organize the work’s preservation by relocating it to the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University.

1962

Death of his first wife Terry

His first wife Terry is killed in a car accident.

1963

First trip to the US: Duchamp in Pasadena

Partly to recover from his loss, he travels to the United States for the first time for a retrospective of Marcel Duchamp’s work at the Pasadena Art Museum, where he meets other leading pop artists and is befriended by Duchamp.