Four Towers
About this artwork
The 1960s brought a new approach to sculpture for Eduardo Paolozzi. Abandoning the rough and coarse appearance of the surfaces of his earlier bronzes, he started to use prefabricated parts made from aluminium. Here, Paolozzi draws on the modernist tradition of 'ready-made' parts in sculpture as well as on the ideal of the artist as an engineer: He distances himself from the notion of the artist's personality being expressed by his work.
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artist:Eduardo PaolozziScottish (1924 - 2005)
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title:Four Towers
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date created:1962
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materials:Aluminium, enamel paint
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measurements:203.20 x 77.50 x 78.40 cm
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credit line:Presented by the artist 1966
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accession number:GMA 978
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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...
