Thirty-five artists

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Artist/Maker	Royal College of Art (commissioners) Paolozzi (artist)
Place of origin	London (made)

Lithograph and silkscreen on Somerset paper depicting the covers and spine of a purple book laid flat. The book has come alive with various sexualised and homoerotic figures, three Messerschmidt heads, various colour charts, and the American flag. Underneath the image is a printed bill detailing the cost of putting on an exhibition for 12 weeks. Signed, numbered and dated by the artist in pencil.

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Categories	Gender and Sexuality Printed Pages & Sheets Prints
Object type	Print
Titles	Thirty-five artists (series title) A new spirit in painting (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Lithograph and silkscreen on Somerset paper Somerset Printing Lithography Screen Printing
Brief description	Print by Eduardo Paolozzi from Volume Four of a Royal College of Art (RCA) printmaking portfolio entitled 'Thirty-five artists'. Great Britain, 1982.
Physical description	Lithograph and silkscreen on Somerset paper depicting the covers and spine of a purple book laid flat. The book has come alive with various sexualised and homoerotic figures, three Messerschmidt heads, various colour charts, and the American flag. Underneath the image is a printed bill detailing the cost of putting on an exhibition for 12 weeks. Signed, numbered and dated by the artist in pencil.
Dimensions	Portfolio height: 67.4cm Porfolio when closed width: 52cm Sheets height: 50cm Sheets width: 65cm Dimensions measured 31/12/2014
Subjects depicted	Gender Sexuality Homosexuality Sculpture Heads Dolls Fetish Robots Bills Queer
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.622:9-1996

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Record created	April 20, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O226738/thirty-five-artists-print-paolozzi/

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