Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1924–2005, BritishPublished by Editions Alecto Ltd.
Title:
Parrot
Date:
1965
Materials & Techniques:
Screen print on H.P. J. Green 133 lbs. white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 38 × 26 inches (96.5 × 66 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "36/65" Image includes the words: 'NOVEMBER 1964 | What I give is the Morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forces to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is to suggest, | or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I make you think of others. Furthermore, I | made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression, and to describe | different kinds of uses of it.'
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Under Copyright
Accession Number:
B1995.3.11
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
James Stirling (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-10-14 - 2011-01-02)Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09)