About this artwork
While working in Hamburg, Germany, in 1953, Paolozzi made a number of collages from damaged or second-hand books on art and archaeology. These generally feature illustrations of antique sculptures superimposed with machine elements taken from specialist manuals, thus engineering a mysterious and suggestive collision of cultures and images. Paolozzi deliberately roughened the surfaces of many of these collages in an effort to homogenise the different elements and give a hand-made, rather than purely reproductive appearance.
Published January 2024
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artist:Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) Scottish
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title:Hermes von Praxiteles
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date created:1953
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materials:Collage on book illustration
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measurements:26.40 x 18.70 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
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accession number:GMA 4034
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi
Of Italian descent, Paolozzi was born in Leith near Edinburgh. He studied in Edinburgh and London and spent two years in Paris from 1947, where he produced enigmatic, bronze sculptures reminiscent of those by Giacometti. During the same period he made a series of dada and surrealist-inspired...