Hints and tips:
...They’re the work of three different makers: Tom Dixon, Eduardo Paolozzi and an anonymous 17th-century wood-turner....
...You can draw parallels with William Morris’s dictum, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”....
...Gustav Metzger’s film of throwing acid at dissolving fabric on the South Bank, allowing fragmentary views of the city, in “Auto-Destructive Art”; William Turnbull’s totemic bronzes of endurance, with ravaged...
...I enjoyed a late-arriving cameo from William Burroughs, commanding a London dinner table with “the slow, canny, rural drawl of a screwball professor and the intonations of WC Fields”....
...His later works, such as the four-metre crouching bronze figure constructed from mechanical-looking fragments, “Newton (after William Blake)”, which presides over the British Library concourse, are hideous...
...Particularly striking are the images of William Mitchell’s deep relief walls, which simultaneously evoke Gaudí, Aztec carving and Alien....
...Alongside “Anthropology” (“studies of whole and distinct ways of life”) come a baboon and a naked, possibly “primitive” man by Elisabeth Frink, Eduardo Paolozzi’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog”...
...Dovecot’s new exhibition, “Weaving the Century”, features work by artists Edward Wadsworth, Elizabeth Blackadder and Eduardo Paolozzi translated into rugs and tapestries....
...The course was taught by Dora Billington, an inspired teacher, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull....
...They were leaders,” declares Katz, adding that Eduardo Paolozzi paved the way for pop art with collages of magazine cuttings in the late 1940s....
...My first British purchase was a diptych, or two-panelled painting, by William Turnbull (1922-), which now hangs in our sitting room....
...It you want a painting by Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, William Scott or earlier figures of 20th-century British art, this is the place to come....
...Images from Japanese monster movies hang cheek-by-jowl with newsprint adverts, tabloid pages (“Triplets found in baby boy”), soft-core floozies, William Burroughs-esque cut-up texts and intricate abstractions...
...These include “Clenched Fist”, a plaster by Edward Paolozzi, which Julian Hartnoll offers for £650, an Eric Gill print for £500 at Simon Hilton, and Craigie Aitchison screen prints for £500 at Advanced Graphics...
...The collage is on loan to Pallant House, with many other pieces by Paolozzi and by most of the leading British artists of the late 20th century....
...There is enough of the 1950s, “geometry of fear” sculpture, Chadwick, Butler and Paolozzi, to warrant a fuller showing of its own....
...The album cover, by Peter Blake, is a collage of life-sized cardboard models of famous people as diverse as Mae West, Marx, Stockhausen and William Burroughs....
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