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Eduardo Paolozzi
British, 1924–2005
1967
A screenprint in which Eduardo Paolozzi stitches together found photographs into a comic‑like collage, pairing everyday gestures, cinematic fragments, and machine parts to interrogate modern visual culture.
A checkerboard header gives way to a tight grid of high‑contrast black‑and‑white panels—close‑up hands cracking eggs, drinking, and writing, a strip of circular film frames, three mid‑shot scenes of a child confronting a hulking costumed figure, and granular mechanical close‑ups—that read as a jolting, cinematic montage.
Created at the height of Pop art, this work helped bring photomechanical collage and image‑appropriation into fine art practice, anticipating later uses of found imagery, sequential montage, and graphic printing in contemporary art.
Medium
One from a portfolio of 101 screenprints (including title page and colophon)
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 14 5/16 x 9 5/16" (36.4 x 23.6 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 × 9 15/16" (38 × 25.2 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
2463.1967.12
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