LOCKS CORSETS

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LOCKS CORSETS 1947

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005)

Details

Dimension
215 X 140 MM
Media
COLLAGE
Accession number
P6341

Summary

As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art in London after evacuation to Oxford during the War, Paolozzi discovered a bookshop selling batches of war damaged books. He had kept scrapbooks as a boy in Edinburgh using cigarette cards, images from film magazines and other ephemera, and he had already experimented with collage as a student at Edinburgh College of Art in 1945. By 1946 he had seen works by Picasso, Ernst and Schwitters first hand, and the books he purchased – damaged encyclopaedias, engine manuals and a book on modelling in sculpture – were to provide the materials for a group of collages made in his final year at the Slade. The titles were generally derived from either the full, or sections of, the original page titles.

Eduardo Paolozzi Artificial Horizons and Eccentric Ladders Works on Paper 1946-1995, The British Council 1996

 

Glossary

  • Collage

    The two-dimensional form of assemblage made by affixing paper, card, photographs, fabric and other objects to a flat surface. It is often combined with painting and drawing techniques. This technique was first introduced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1912 during their phase of synthetic cubism.

  • Film

    A transparent, flexible plastic material, usually of cellulose acetate or polyester, on which light-sensitive emulsion is coated, or on which an image can be formed by various transfer processes.

  • Sculpture

    A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.