The Jet Age Compendium

Author: David Brittain
Publisher: Four Corners Books
ISBN: 9780954502584
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"From 1967, up until his death, Eduardo Paolozzi was involved with the innovative British literary magazine Ambit, using its pages as a space for some of his most experimental and innovative creations, pushing at the boundary between text and image. Collages, visual essays and fragments from novels, drawing on pop culture images from newspapers, magazines and advertisements. Reprinted in their entirety for the first time, Paolozzi's works for Ambit tackle the war in Vietnam, the acceleration of Japanese technology, and the utopias of mass advertising. The Jet Age Compendium reproduces the Paolozzi pages from Ambit along with magazine covers, poems and advertisements that originally appeared alongside the artist's work. The book is housed in a day-glo pink sleeve that also contains an essay written by David Brittain which puts Paolozzi's work for the magazine into context"-- Publisher's website.

Eduardo Paolozzi

Author: Judith Collins
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848221314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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 illustrated book provides a 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.

Eduardo Paolozzi

Author: Eduardo Paolozzi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
His private and public art ranges from the collage for a postage stamp to the monumental bronze sculpture of Newton for the British Library as well as the mosaic decorations for Tottenham Court Road underground station, London.".

Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics

Author: Gavin Parkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381437
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
The first book to look at the relationship either between Surrealism and Science Fiction or between Surrealism and comics.

Show and Tell

Author: Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Edited by Julie Ault. Essays by Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Sabrina Locks, Tim Rollins.

Paolozzi and Wittgenstein

Author: Diego Mantoan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030158462
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
This impressive edited collection investigates the relationship between British Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. At this time, when Paolozzi’s oeuvre is in the process of being rediscovered, his long-time fascination with Wittgenstein requires thorough exploration, as it discloses a deeper understanding of his artistic production, further helping to reassess the philosopher’s actual impact on visual arts and its theory in the second half of the 20th century. With 13 diverse and comprehensive chapters, bringing together philosophers and art historians, this volume aims at retracing and pondering the influence of Wittgenstein on the idea of art in Paolozzi, thus giving an unprecedented insight into Wittgenstein’s philosophy as employed by contemporary artists.

Come Alive!

Author: Corita
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954502522
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
"Admired by Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller and Saul Bass, Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) was one of the most innovative and unusual pop artist of the 1960s, battling the political and religious establishments, revolutionizing graphic design and encouraging creativity of thousands of people--all while living and practicing as a Catholic nun in California. Mixing advertising slogans and poetry in her prints and commandeering nuns and students to help make ambitious installations, processions and banners, Sister Corita's work is now recognized as some of the most striking--and joyful--American art of the 60s. But, at the end of the decade and at the height of her fame and prodigious work rate, she left the convent where she had spent her adult life. Julie Ault's book ls the first to examine Corita's life and career, containing more than 90 illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, capturing the artist's use of vibrant and day-glo colors."--Page 4 of cover.

Dark Toys

Author: David Hopkins
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300225741
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood We all have memories of the object-world of childhood. For many of us, playthings and images from those days continue to resonate. Rereading a swathe of modern and contemporary artistic production through the lens of its engagement with childhood, this book blends in-depth art historical analysis with sustained theoretical exploration of topics such as surrealist temporality, toys, play, nostalgia, memory, and 20th-century constructions of the child. The result is an entirely new approach to the surrealist tradition via its engagement with "childish things." Providing what the author describes as a "long history of surrealism," this book plots a trajectory from surrealism itself to the art of the 1980s and 1990s, through to the present day. It addresses a range of figures from Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Cornell, and Helen Levitt, at one end of the spectrum, to Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Paolozzi, Claes Oldenburg, Susan Hiller, Martin Sharp, Helen Chadwick, Mike Kelley, and Jeff Koons, at the other.

Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion

Author: Michael Kupperman
Publisher: Exhibit A
ISBN: 9780956192875
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Summary: "In the late 1990s, Michael Kupperman bought a stack of men's magazines from the 1950s and 1960s. On examining them, he discovered that their original owner had tampered with them, using the contents to form his own hybrid magazines. This reordering, censoring and selecting, made the sensation-crazed originals even stranger. Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion presents highlights from that collection, and takes place in a murky, monochromatic world where mysterious, energetic sin is always happening behind closed doors. Some of it is factual; some of it smells of heady invention."--Page 4 of cover.

The Doors

Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610393309
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four Doors songs in an hour -- every hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify, and focus solely on the music. It is a story untold; all these years later, it is a new story.