Will Man Outgrow the Earth

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Artist/Maker

Paolozzi, Eduardo (Sir) (maker)

Collage

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Categories	Prints Scotland
Object type	Collage
Titles	Will Man Outgrow the Earth (assigned by artist) Bunk (series title)
Materials and techniques	Collage Collage
Brief description	Collage by Eduardo Paolozzi: 'Will Man Outgrow the Earth', 1952, published 1972 Great Britain
Physical description	Collage
Production type	Unique
Gallery label	COLLAGE: WILL MAN OUTGROW THE EARTH By Eduardo Paolozzi (British, born 1924) British. 1952 Collage Given by the artist Circ.715-1971 This is one of a group of collages, shown at a lecture given by Paolozzi to the newly formed Independent Group at the ICA in 1952, based on sheets from American .magazines of the 1940s and 1950s. The lecture suggested a source of subject matter which had been ignored by fine artists hitherto. The collages were published in 1972 as a portfolio of prints entitled 'Bunk.
Object history	One of 11 collages from a set of 46 (numbered 1-15) reproduced as the portfolio of prints entitled 'Bunk', published in 1972. Most based on complete sheets from magazines of the 1940s and 1950s. A copy of the portfolio 'Bunk' is in the department (Circ.517-561-1972). The source material, including these collages, was shown at a lecture given by Paolozzi to the newly formed Independent Group at the I.C.A. in 1952 and as such was seminal in the history of Pop Art.
Subjects depicted	Spacecraft Planets
Associated objects	CIRC.708-1971 (Set) CIRC.709-1971 (Set) CIRC.710-1971 (Set) CIRC.711-1971 (Set) CIRC.712-1971 (Set) CIRC.713-1971 (Set) CIRC.714-1971 (Set) CIRC.716-1971 (Set) CIRC.718-1971 (Set) CIRC.718A-1971 (Set)
Bibliographic references	Crowley, David and Jane Pavitt, Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970, London: V&A Publishing, 2008. Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.715-1971

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Record created	October 10, 2007
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O139901/will-man-outgrow-the-earth-collage-paolozzi-eduardo-sir/

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