Leopold Bloom
Richard Hamilton British
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James Joyce’s modernist epic Ulysses (1922) follows the wanderings of the unlikely protagonist Leopold Bloom over a single day—June 16, 1904. For Hamilton, Joyce’s novel offered a model of how to combine diverse styles and techniques in a single work. Hamilton began composing illustrations for the book between 1948 and 1949, when he made some twenty-eight preliminary drawings and studies. One of the first was a portrait of Bloom, intended as a frontispiece for the book. Almost forty years later, he transferred his drawing to an etching plate, using a roulette tool to simulate pencil marks in a style reminiscent of Picasso’s Neoclassical phase of the early 1920s.
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