Eduardo Paolozzi

Terence Conran at Design Museum, London (2011-12) (press release)

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ADP staff - 02 Jan 12

...Eduardo Paolozzi where he concentrated his skills on furniture design, ceramics and fabrics. Travelling in France, the young Conran saw the for the first time, simple but delicious food, enticing country markets and shops full of unfussy kitchenware’s and was inspired to introduce this appealing...

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Backbeat film (2003)

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John A. Walker - 12 Mar 11

Backbeat film (2003) A review by John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen. This docudrama and rock ’n’ roll film is about two years in the life of a young British art student and bass guitar player called Stuart Sutcliffe (1940-62), who was of Scottish origin, and his...

Eduardo Paolozzi

John Lennon: Art, film and music (2010)

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John A. Walker - 12 Oct 10

...Eduardo Paolozzi, the sculptor and Pop artist. Sadly, Sutcliffe died shortly afterwards at the age of twenty-one, so it is an academic question whether or not he would have achieved the same kind of fame as an artist as that he was beginning to achieve with the Beatles. John Lennon: Art, film...

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White Cube’s PR guru: Now it’s Honey Luard’s turn (2002)

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R.J. Preece (ADP) - 31 Jul 09

...Eduardo Paolozzi, and she was an assistant to curator, editor, and author Richard Shone. At White Cube, Honey moved up from archiving Damien Hirst’s work to being in charge of press relations and publications. Now in her tenth year at the renowned gallery, R.J. Preece interviewed Honey to find...

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Grayson Perry curates: Unpopular culture (press release) (2008)

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ADP staff - 01 Jun 09

...Eduardo Paolozzi; Martin Parr; Tony Ray-Jones and Homer Sykes as well as two striking new works by Grayson Perry himself. It opens at De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea before embarking on a national tour. Unpopular Culture examines a period in history which Grayson Perry argues was “before...

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"This is Tomorrow" exhibition

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi. One display was composed of images and artefacts derived from popular culture and the catalogue/poster featured Richard Hamilton’s seminal collage “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?” The popular culture section proved the most memorable and as...

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Symbolic Architecture (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi also contributed a mosaic. Symbolic Architecture was a facet of post-modernism. It marked a return to pre-modern ways of conceiving architecture as forms, structures and ornament personifying ideas and representing cultural systems such as astrology, as against merely...

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Silk-Screenprinting / Photo-Screenprinting (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Smith and Gerd Winner (Smith made three-dimensional screenprints as multiples in the ’60s). Painters employing the process of photo-screenprinting on to canvas have not been so numerous but they include: Alain Jacquet, Robert Rauschenberg, John Stezaker and Andy Warhol....

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Robot Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 16 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi and Ernest Trova. These “mock-robot” sculptures he discussed as a preliminary to a full examination of working robots operating according to cybernetic principles. See also Computer Art, Cybernetic Art, Kinetic Art, Light Art. References and further reading > M. Myers & P....

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Pop Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi— and it flourished in the 1960s in both Europe and the United States. British Pop artists of the 1960s included Clive Barker, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Joe Tilson. The Americans included Jim Dine, Jann Haworth...

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New Brutalism (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi. See also Art Brut, Modern Movement. References and further readings > Reynor Banham. “Brutalism”. In G. Hatje’s Encyclopedia of modern architecture. (Thames & Hudson, 1963), pp. 61-4. > The New Brutalism: Ethic or aesthetic? (Architectural Press, 1966). > Robin Boyd....

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Kelpra Studios (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi, R. B. Kitaj, Victor Pasmore, Bridget Riley and Joe Tilson. (The medium of screenprinting proved to be especially suited to the styles of op and pop in the ’60s.) The prints were sold via such outlets as the Marlborough Fine Art, Editions Alecto and the Petersburg Press. See...

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Junk Culture / Junk Sculpture (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Stankiewicz. Some artists presented objects as found, others transformed them by crushing them or by welding them together to make abstract or figurative sculptures. The method of collaging junk together marked a reaction against the carving and modeling traditions...

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Installation Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 09 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi, Andy Warhol, and Group Material. Furthermore, the nature of the display context has been an important factor in the appreciation and reception of modern art (see Brian O’Doherty’s account of the "white cube"— the ideal space of modernism— listed below). In the case of the minimal...

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Independent Group (IG) (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 09 Jun 92

...Eduardo Paolozzi, Colin St John Wilson, Alison and Peter Smithson, and William Turnbull. Thus the IG represented a wide cross-section of the visual arts and criticism. The aim of IG was to consider the implications for art and society of science, technology and the mass media at the midpoint...

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Stuart Sutcliffe: Myth in the making (1990)

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John A. Walker - 01 Jun 90

...Eduardo Paolozzi. Sutcliffe confided to Pauline that Paolozzi was "the most important artist in Europe". Apparently, Sutcliffe wanted to make painted sculpture but this work in Hamburg consisted of collages of torn German magazines superimposed with dark-coloured grids or primitivistic...

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The Independent Group:
Fathers [and mothers] of Pop (1990)

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John A. Walker - 01 Feb 90

...Eduardo Paolozzi, Colin St John Wilson, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, William Turnbull and John Voelcker. Thus the Independent Group encompassed art and design critics, architects, artists and people working in popular culture (Frank Cordell in pop music and del Renzio in women’s...

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John Lennon & Stuart Sutcliffe: music + art school (1987)

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John A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 15 Jan 87

...Eduardo Paolozzi, the sculptor and Pop artist. Sadly, Sutcliffe died shortly afterwards at the age of twenty-one, so it is an academic question whether or not he would have achieved the same kind of fame as an artist as that he was beginning to achieve with the Beatles. Read more music + art...

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