Naughty Eduardo! So I'm browsing the shelves of a Kentish Town charity shop last week when I spot the spines of a few Ambit magazines - bah! - not the earlier numbers I would have hoped for but worth a look, eh? To my delight, in no.189 (Summer 2007), there were these collage/drawings by Paolozzi. Absolute delight, I mean, because I'd not seen them before, nowhere, not in the books I have on Paolozzi. Perhaps, I thought, because they are naughty?
Crude, playful and, in a sense, typical of Paolozzi's rough-edged approach to many early collages they are, all the same, a surprise. I still wonder why they don't seem to be viewable online. I tried a search but found nothing (yes, I may not be using the right words). I'm not surprised that they didn't make the big Whitechapel Gallery retrospective in 2017.
They may be 'BUNK!' in terms of his outstanding output, but they're still fun and show a different side to the man.
The book you need on Paolozzi in Ambit is this one.
TTFN
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