Eduardo Paolozzi art book - Judith Collins

Eduardo Paolozzi art book by Judith Collins / ISBN 9781848221314 / A 304-page hardback, 10 x 11.75 inches, illustrated throughout, published by Lund Humphries (UK) 

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"The definitive study of this major force in twentieth-century art."--The TLS

Artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a unique cultural figure. His varied yet instantly recognisable work chronicles the significant changes in British art from the austere 1950s to the post-post-modern late 1990s. This highly illustrated and visually exciting book provides the first comprehensive overview of the career of a major, prolific and complex artist, exploring Paolozzi's work from all periods and across all media: collage, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, tapestry and film. An Italian Scot, Paolozzi studied first at Edinburgh College of Art, before moving on to the Ruskin Drawing School and the Slade. He was a founding member of the Independent Group in the early 1950s but steadfastly resisted the 'Pop' label, preferring instead to see his pioneering interdisciplinarity as an extension and an expansion of radical Surrealism. Dedicating a chapter to each facet of Paolozzi's wide-ranging practice - including, in turn, his bronze, aluminium and public sculptures, as well as his early collages and his innovative screenprints - this book offers the definitive, illustrated, art-historical appraisal of an artist whose work continues to fascinate and inspire.

Judith Collins is an independent curator and writer. She was responsible for several exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London in the early 1980s, and then held the post of Senior Curator, Modern British Art, at Tate for 15 years. She is the prize-winning author of a range of books, including Andy Goldsworthy: Midsummer Snowballs (2001), Lynn Chadwick (2006) and Sculpture Today (2007).