About this artwork
Eduardo Paolozzi had been making scrapbooks of exotic images from childhood. Once in Paris, his popular culture collages using American glossy magazines took on a new significance. Used in Paolozzi's groundbreaking 1952 lecture called Bunk! at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, it was the first time that images from vernacular culture was treated as fine art. It is considered as the "opening salvo" of the Pop Art movement. The publication of this material as prints two decades later reintroduced these images to a new generation who had grown up with Pop.
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artist:Eduardo PaolozziScottish (1924 - 2005)
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title:Bunk!
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date created:1948/72
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materials:Box with 47 prints: facsimile reproduction of collages made 1947 - 1952
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measurements:Various sizes from 19.00 x 15.00 cm to 41.00 x 29.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by the artist 1994
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accession number:GMA 3836
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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...
