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The History of Nothing and Other Excursions - Eduardo Paolozzi, Jasia Reichardt
Art Publishing Inc. 2024 ISBN 9781739469405 Acqn 34191
Pb 25x33cm 160pp col ills £25

In 1962 Eduardo Paolozzi made his famous film History of Nothing. A surrealist collage in time, it
is a twelve-minute paean to the broad and mysterious culture of the mid-twentieth century.

In 1975 the curator and critic Jasia Reichardt, in collaboration with Paolozzi, wrote The History of
Nothing and Other Excursions, a fascinating and previously unpublished essay about the making
and ideas that informed the project.

This volume contains this essay, unpublished until now, with others by Reichardt and Paolozzi,
alongside the artist's collages and working notes for the film.

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was one of the pre-eminent British artists of the post-war era.
Although considered a founder of Pop Art, he thought of his work, which ranged from sculpture
and graphics to film, as being inspired by Surrealism and its methods.

Jasia Reichardt writes, lectures and organises events about subjects which deal with the
relationship of art to other areas of human activity such as architecture, science, technology. She
was assistant director of the ICA, director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and tutor at the AA. She
has written books on art, computers, robots and the future.

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