Paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, 70 pages, W170mm x H245mm
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