Label Text:
Label text from the Curatorial Fellowship exhibition "The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop," April 5 – May 6, 2012
A key figure in post-war British art, Eduardo Paolozzi was a member of the Independent Group, out of which developed the first phase of British Pop art. Paolozzi often turned to collage, piecing together images of everyday objects from advertisements, magazines, and technological journals. He was eager to develop an archive that would allow for the analysis of popular culture, and General Dynamic F.U.N. can be understood as part’ of that process. Drawing upon his own eclectic collection of advertisements, technical manuals, American magazines, and science fiction texts, General Dynamic F.U.N. bombards the viewerwith fantastical juxtapositions of popular, everyday objects. Scattered throughout the fifty screen-prints and photolithographs that make up this portfolio one can find familiar icons such as the Chiquita banana, Mr. Peanut, Mickey Mouse, and Elizabeth Taylor. These icons are juxtaposed with images of astronauts preparing for missions, robots, cars, and motorcycles, to name a few, As noted in the introduction to General Dynamic F.U.N. by the novelist J.G. Ballard, “Here the familiar materials of our everyday lives, the jostling iconographies of mass advertising and consumer goods, are manipulated to reveal their true identities.” - Kristen Rudy and Rebecca Bernard (MA Art History, 2012)
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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=UM+1979.45 |
